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Apple not to support Flash
Normally I wouldn't post a technical article like this, but Steve Jobs' recent comments on why Apple isn't supporting Flash on the iphone/ipad/ipod are just too ridiculous to ignore.
From the article:
"Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true."
What's this guy smoking? Apple is a notoriously closed system (try getting a google related app on the app store) and as is mentioned in the article comments, Flex is an open source Flash development tool.
"Jobs categorized Flash as a closed platform, because anyone that wants to develop for Flash has to go through Adobe."
Yeah, and anyone that wants to develop an app for the iphone has to go through apple.
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Clearly Adobe has angered the Steve at some point, and he's waving his 900 pound stick at the 800 pound gorilla.
But the best exchange on the subject actually came last week, when Adobe Flash Platform project manager Mike Chambers posted on his blog:
"Ultimately open platforms will win out over the type of closed, locked down platform that Apple is trying to create".
CNET reported that an Apple spokesperson offered the following rebuttal:
"Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary," said spokeswoman Trudy Miller in a statement."
Of course one is a hardware platform, but why ruin perfectly good rhetoric?
Point: Apple.
Via MacRumors