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Originally Posted by facialfreak
You may want to check your facts ... as it has nothing to do with that.
Apple is the one company in the world who is not afraid of their competition.
The reason why Apple does not allow iOS to run flash, is because Steve Jobs wants to force websites to become HTML5 compliant. HTML5 can do everything flash does, is much more efficient than flash, and is much more secure than flash, which is very easy to embed rogue code into ...
Flash is not going to go away, if people keep supporting it! While it does make surfing on an iPad a bit tricky sometimes, I fully commend Steve Jobs for his efforts in getting the world to adopt HTML5
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http://www.cultofmac.com/adobe-there...-revenue/28564
http://blogs.computerworld.com/16031...words_heats_up
Sure, you could argue that steve jobs is some magic superhero that wants to rid the world of the evil that is flash, but the if you look at some of the other recent events you'll see that apple is doing everything to grab money possible. There was even somethign recently about ebooks no longer being sold outside the appstore because apple saw they weren't cashing in on that.
The fact stands, the reason flash doesn't run on iphone/ipad in my opinion, is so people are forced to pay for games/etc on the appstore instead of going to addictinggames.com and playing for free. Sure, flash can't do alot of stuff that apps can, but theres alot of apps in the app store that can easily be replaced with free flash stuff, and on top of that all the flash stuff would be cross-device compatible. You could play 1 single flash application on a pc, mac, android, blackberry, and ios device.
However, I think the biggest arguement that the most popular pc browsers didn't really support html5 (specifically, canvas) until what, 2009? 2010? I can't find any specific dates, but the earliest I heard of html5 video players and such popping up is not really all that long ago. They might have been around, I dont know, but they definately weren't very popular. The first iphone was unveiled Jan 9th, 2007. I'm not even sure the first iphone supported html5 in its browser. Assuming it did, his plan was to make a device that supported something almost completely unused at that time, and not support flash which is all over the place?
If he really wanted to get rid of flash, Mac OSX wouldn't support it either.