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Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash"
teh31337one writes "Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple's position on Flash, going back to his company's long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that 'Flash was created during the PC era — for PCs and mice.'"
Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone. Pot, meet kettle.
Of course you're going to get a bunch of corporate doublespeak out of Jobs, attempting to disguise base corporate greed under some sort of philosophical cover. But we all know that Flash apps would cut into Apple's bottom line, and it all comes down to that.
Steve doesn't like competition. Steve does like money. And Steve calls the shots.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
The real reason?
It competes with iAd.
When Flash is mentioned people (especially on here) first think of annoying advertisements, video, or games. These may be the most "in your face" implementations of Flash, but the fact of the matter is that Flash is used for MANY other purposes that people may not notice as much, which HTML5 simply cannot touch at all right now.
Nice *interactive* financial graphs on Google, Yahoo, etc, are extremely common, and while there are many HTML5 graphing examples out there, few are interactive at all, and even less are usefully interactive. (dragging to zoom, highlighting, drill-down, etc...)
Flash is also great for writing entire web-based business class applications in, just one example is Google's entire analytics site, it uses Flash extensively, so much so it doesn't work without it.
HTML5 and its related tools still have a *long* way to go to catch up... Flash will be with us for quite a while yet.
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Flash was unstable on Linux for years, but in the last two years the problem has apparently subsided. No more crashes in Firefox, not even in Konqueror. How is this possible?