Read Here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Although I don’t worship Apple or think that Steve Jobs is always right with the closed system on the iPhone that I need to Jailbreak just so I can load whatever apps I want, he does bring up a good point about Flash. Flash is becoming redundant in the web. Why? There are better solutions out there. People used to use Flash just to get drop down menus, but now that can be achieved with Javascript and CSS, there is no need to use Flash. H264 video plays better on HTML5 than Flash on Mac OS X considering how much Adobe neglected the Flash Player for so long. This have been the same case with Flash on Linux, working like a pile of shit while the Windows version work like it should. Not everyone wants to use Windows as their OS of choice and people want a alternative. Shoving all the improvements over for the Windows version of Flash is alienating other users to have a properly functioning Flash player. Because of the instability and performance problem, I had to install Click2Flash to prevent Flash from loading. It also allowed me to play youtube videos without needing to use Flash.
I can’t say that Apple’s App Store is a closed system, but despite Flash can be used on any platform, it is still a closed system. You can’t use other programs to make Flash movies, only the program Adobe provides developers and once developers use it, they lock the developers in, with no other alternative to use if they decide they want to use something else. HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Webkit is open… Flash isn’t despite what Adobe says. If they open sourced Flash, then it would be a different story, but that isn’t the case.
Flash is the past… not the future. Now more and more websites are switching to HTML5 for video or building native apps to play these videos without Flash. Flash is pointless on a touch screen phone because Flash is designed for a mouse and keyboard. Also, it will cause further instability because of Adobe’s track record and suck up all the battery life because of those Flash ads.
Adobe needs to give up on exerting the power for Flash. Flash is antiqued technology that needs to go. The web will be better off without Flash…
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