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I disagree. A Flash-based presentation layer is a liability, since it's vendor-locked.

• benologist 17y ago
  Almost everybody is building on a platform they don't really control. Notables include Facebook, iPhone, Windows, OSX, .NET, Wii, XBox, PlayStation ... even open source is only technically under your control since it's out of the question for most people to maintain and continue developing whatever they use in a worst-case scenario.
  • sunchild 17y ago
    That's silly: if it's an open standard, I can migrate off of it. If it's a single-vendor closed alternative to open web protocols, I'd be worried. Now that at least one very popular browser has no Flash support, I'd also worry about that.
    • benologist 17y ago
      You can migrate off a closed platform as well. There's nothing to stop them moving to an open technology or another closed technology or not moving at all in the future, as long as their needs are met. And you're looking at just one little layer of the vendor lock in, whether open or closed platforms you can be tied to a number of different vendors.