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While it might be a little FUD-ish, I don't think it's completely unfounded. Banning Flash from iOS devices could be seen as banning the "App"-space competitio
by tomlin 16y ago
While it might be a little FUD-ish, I don't think it's completely unfounded.
Banning Flash from iOS devices could be seen as banning the "App"-space competition at the door. Apple talks a lot about "the open web" but consistently pushes Apps.
For example, my iPhone's Safari is absolutely clueless to the file input tag, while it could easily access the "Camera Roll" to allow a user to upload a photo. Yet, Apps can access the file system as necessary - giving Apps the clear advantage.
I don't necessarily think that Apple is trying to "bypass the web", but they are definitely attempting to fork it. Successfully, even.
- sudont 16y agoWeb as content, web as distributed apps. It's not really a surprise that Mozilla and Google view everything web-related so solipsistically: that's all they care about. Apple, Microsoft and the Linux universe all have other interests beyond the web. Mozilla views these other interests as heresy: web is future! web is all-powerful! web rules all! and as such deems everything else "bad."
- slantyyz 16y agoI was of the understanding that Flash is only banned from iOS until Adobe can prove that it runs cleanly and efficiently.
- Anechoic 16y agoApple talks a lot about "the open web" but consistently pushes Apps. But when Apple was pushing the open web, developers were pushing apps.