A Peace Plan To End the Flash-On-iPhone Fight

GMGruman writes "As the pro- and anti-Flash camps have hardened their positions, the editors at InfoWorld have come up with a four-point peace plan that would allow Flash on the iPhone while addressing Apple's very real concerns over performance, stability, and security. Readers can vote and comment on the peace plan, which InfoWorld hopes will result in serious talks between Apple and Adobe."

Comments

Re:Real plan to fix the Flash on iPhone dev concer

[Errol backfiring]

4) Salesmen: really stop selling flash. Be a sport, and sell something more modern.

Flash is usually there because of the salesmen, not because of the web authors.

Re:Come on guys...

[Lumpy]

you beat the webdesigners severely for using flash. Because you could have simply given a link to the College's iphone/ipod friendly (moble.college.edu) site and not have to force the user to install an app.

A lot of these "informational" apps are garbage that could have been done better with a simple website.

Re:Not about Perf, Stability or Security

[raju1kabir]

This is exactly why Apple are

Apple aren't anything; it's a grammatically singular entity. Apple's managers are. Apple's employees are. Apple's competitors are. Apple is.

They need a hardware exit strategy - for now they have desirable hardware, but elsewhere prices are decreasing, specs are increasing, and beyond that there's going to come a saturation point for these devices. Apple realise this and they're trying to steal a march on the software side of things because they realise it might one day be their primary business.

I don't buy this for a second. Apple's hardware business is extremely profitable, moreso all the time, and the company has been very successful at differentiating itself from the far-less-profitable commodity x86 hardware market. What you write is unsubstantiated fantasy.