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The Surprising Statistics Behind Flash and Apple
Barence writes "PC Pro's Tom Arah has dug up some statistics that cast severe doubt over Steve Jobs' assertion that Flash is the technology of the past, and Apple's iOS is the platform of the future. He quibbles with Net Applications' assertion that iOS growth is 'massive,' considering that mobile accounts for only 2.6% of web views, and the iOS share stands at only 1.1%. By comparison, Silverlight penetration now stands at 51% while 97% of web surfers have Flash installed, according to Stat Owl. 'At least when Bill Gates held the web to ransom he had the decency to first establish a dominant position,' Arah claims. 'In Steve Jobs' case, with only 1.1% market share, the would-be emperor isn't even wearing any clothes.'"
Cause that's not how it works. I would figure a 5 digit would know that.
If we'd waited for Mozilla to come up with a video player for Netscape, we'd still be waiting, or else there'd be multi-gigabyte HD-quality animated GIF files all over the web...
People bitched when apple abandoned the floppy drive as archaic, out of date technology (and replaced it with cloud storage, back in 1996 before the world even new what cloud storage was) too.
They also thgouht the ipod was shit as well.
Like him or not, to write off what steve says as BS because no one else has done it yet is short sighted.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.