steve jobs attacks flash again today

[dangerdhotrod]

steve jobs attacks FlashOnce again companies are vying for control over how content is developed, and consumers and developers are going to suffer. Maybe a Flash plug-in for Mobile Safari is going to be a performance hit, but as a consumer I'm happy to take that hit if I can at least view the content

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[dangerdhotrod]

Oh, well I agree that those two things are definitely weak points with flash, and though you can develop with those things in mind easier with each new iteration of the sdk it's something worth noting. But I think Jobs wasn't really trying to point out the limitations of flash, it was more about picking out the main points that 'most people' would understand and setting people up with a apple vs. flash mindset, setting up the terms and location of the battle so to speak.

The thing about ADA standards applies more to iPhone apps than Flash ones anyway since there's not really any handicap accessibility going on in the iPhone SDK where the Flash SDK at least has the ability to include accessibility even if most developers don't integrate it into their apps, so he's not going to bring that up. And search engine indexing doesn't apply because apple is trying to sell the whole 'app' thing more than the mobile browser thing...if you want to talk about mobile web apps iPhone doesn't really do that, I mean you can make a mobile safari site that's going to look good on the iPhone but apple isn't in the business of delivering rich content apps that run through browsers, they're trying to get people away from using browser based apps, it's all about native apps and the app store.
Really Matt's response is pretty spot on, it's a great point that if people didn't adopt these closed systems in terms of creating content then these companies wouldn't have the ability to control the development of the technology. I'll have to think about that, what is my role in things. I could move to open source methods, but it would require learning a whole new approach and a huge learning curve. I don't know if I'm too lazy to do it. But he's definitely got me thinking about it.