In fact, the argument was never really about Flash technology itself, said Narayen, but Apple’s control over the iOS platform.
Fiddlesticks.
As usual, folks start to (deliberately?) conflate/confuse the Flash Player Plug-in for web browsing with the Flash Pro IDE for creating smart-device apps. Of course Apple will totally control the iOS platform... it's only purpose is to run on Apple's hardware devices. That's exactly as things should be. But for the multi-platform world which needs to access the Internet as a whole, there needs to be a "universal" standard for accessing regular (non-DRM) video which doesn't require folks to install some (proprietary) Adobe plug-in. If PDFs, PNGs and JPEGs (etc.) required such doodads, we'd be in a real mess now.
Die Flash, die.
[if folks want to run Flash to view wiggly web pages which look like some sorta playstation game, fine... let them. But regular viddy should be served in a totally "open" fashion.]
