Ditch Flash, Mr. Jobs. Really?
Apparently Steve Jobs told the Wall Street Journal to ditch flash because it is a buggy old technology with security holes. That’s an interesting attitude, considering that the real reason for why Apple refuses to support Flash on the iPhone and iPad is that it would undermine the Apple store and they would have to relinquish their total control over what apps run on the devices. That and the fact that AT&T would have to deal with large-scale video streaming on their network (here’s interesting article regarding this on the Economist).
Do no evil, Mr Gates Jobs and let us decide what software to install on the devices.
February 19, 2010 | Filed Under Uncategorized
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I disagree, Flash has to go. It has taken everything the web standards effort has tried to attempt, ate it, and then shat it out. Plus I don’t want a proprietary piece of software determining the future of the web. The only way Apple and any other developer for web devices outside of the browser should support Flash is if they handed it over to the w3c and made it open source.
i always watch streaming videos online, they are sort of my past time.`~;