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Is Apple's Attack On Flash Really About Video?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the makes-a-lot-of-sense dept.

jamiegau writes "Here we have a long and in-depth blog post analyzing the faults in Steve Jobs's Letter about Flash. The writer concludes with an interesting idea that it is all about online video."

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  1. We're getting played by inKubus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No one seems to realize we're getting played if we continue to talk about this. Steve Jobs said something about a competing technology. Who cares? Just because beyond-proprietary-Apple doesn't want it doesn't mean it serves a purpose. It's good at a lot of what it does and it definitely drove HTML5 and CSS3. It's good to have a plugin to do advanced graphics and interactivity until the specs and the javascript and browser compatability are solved problems, which they aren't (be we're finally getting close).

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  2. flash needs to die anyway by flannelbeard · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    as a developer i absolutely loathe everything about flash. regardless of the reasons, some valid, some not so much, if it helps make flash go away then its a win/win as far as i am concerned. i don't care for the finger pointing and childish bickering amongst billionaires for more billions... but flash needs to die, IMHO.

  3. Re:God save flash! by melikamp · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I agree completely. Jobs' diatribe, while hypocritical, was also spot on. Flash has virtually no redeeming qualities. Using it for watching videos when every major browser can simply download video files and stream handles and "open them with", is freaking retarded. Flash was obsolete long before HTML 5 was even on a drawing board.

  4. Re:Games too by icebraining · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I mean, look at all the stuff Apple has done that is new and innovative, particularly in the last five years.

    I'm looking, but I can't seem to find them.

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  5. Re:Games too by Gilmoure · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    'cause everyone knows all Apple customers are too stoopid to breathe and have too much money and, oh yeah, they infest Slashdot so any post made that's negative of Apple will get modded down to -10 Gruechow.

    And they suck. /sarcasm for folks who are dumber than Apple users.

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  6. Re:Games too by ClosedSource · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "It's also worth noting that when Apple opened the iTunes store, there weren't really other decent online stores out there."

    And by "decent" I assume you mean "not created by Apple".