You know the IT media is full of hacks when they all studiously ignore the fact that the reason Flash was ultimately abandoned is that it would allow app develo

You know the IT media is full of hacks when they all studiously ignore the fact that the reason Flash was ultimately abandoned is that it would allow app developers to bypass the appstores of Apple and Google. The two will never create anything to match Flash. Even Microsoft abandoned Silverlight for the same reason and it is why Mozilla abandoned Shumway because they don't want to bite Google's hand.