Steve Job's Thoughts on Flash. ⇒
30 April 2010, mid-morning
The back and forth between Adobe and Apple over Flash heated up yesterday when Steve Jobs posted a message on Apple’s web site, discussing his reasons for wanting to keep Flash off the iPhone and iPad. Tyler points out that his comment on cross-platform products is a little ironic. John Gruber’s earlier discussion about Flash on the iPhone is worth a read, if only because he makes a few points that Steve Job’s dances around. Ultimately, Apple doesn’t need Flash on their phones. They have been selling a ton of them without supporting Flash. Once in a blue moon i’ll come across a site that doesn’t work on my phone, but if I had to choose between an iPhone and Flash, i’m going to choose the iPhone. I think the vast majority of people will as well. People producing websites are moving their content from Flash to various open web-standards like HTML5 and its associated new technologies. If I was Adobe i’d start working on tools for authoring HTML5 content. That’s the future, and it’s not like they don’t have experience with this sort of thing.
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