"But I also don’t think that means there is no room for companies like Adobe and Microsoft that want to see the web be better." A piece of rhetoric there. It's

"But I also don’t think that means there is no room for companies like Adobe and Microsoft that want to see the web be better." A piece of rhetoric there. It's implied that companies who are pushing for the standardization of web technologies don't want to "see the web be better". "But it goes beyond features and into another problem with the web: a consistent experience. From browser to browser you’re going to get wildly different implementations of a “standard”" Flash has a uniform experience, sure: you're either running it on 32-bit x86 Windows, or you're seeing nothing. "Platform Evangelist for Adobe" So the guy gets paid to be a flash apologist.