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Adobe Flash on, or not on, mobile devices (w/ history of flash)
- radley 17y agoThere are so many thing wrong with this article, I don't even know where to start. The iPhone was the first smart phone to replace the mobile web. Flash-less internet was at least better than mobile-internet. Arguing that the iPhone is proof that we don't need Flash follows the same slippery slope that we don't need the iPhone since basic cell phones are popular. The HUGE irony is the author casts a negative view that Microsoft broke open standards by blocking QuickTime yet praises Apple for blocking Flash. They're the same thing: blocking competition on a proprietary platform. Flash wasn't leverage for Microsoft video. At the time there was a three-way battle between WMV, Real, and QuickTime and it sucked because certain videos only played on certain platforms. Flash provided a universal solution. I'll admit Flash isn't not perfect, but it's undoubtedly the most popular and efficient. Flash is also the most open, being available to everyone, with the only exception being people who install additional extensions to avoid it.