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The iPad's lack of Flash is a win-win situation

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It seems iPad lack of Flash support is the debate of the moment. On one camp: “You can’t use the web without Flash”, on the other camp: “We don’t need no stinking Flash”. Although I do realize how a technology like Flash is sometimes needed, I’m more on the second camp. The less flash, the better.

I think iPad’s lack of Flash cause two things to happen:

  • Slow down the adoption of the iPad: surely someone will say “No Flash, No iPad“.
  • Speed up the adoption of HTML5: surely someone will consider using HTML5 to support the tablet.

Giving that the iPad is a closed device, probably the closedest non-phone computer consumers ever had access to and that HTML5 is good progress for the web, I consider both results of the iPad not having Flash positive. If I have to say anything about it, it’d be: please, stop trying to wake Steve Jobs up regarding this, you’ll ruin it.

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  1. If I were in charge of Adobe | Pablo's new site

    […] I actually dislike both companies. Apple is building an extremely proprietary environment. They are much worst than Microsoft. Apple’s tax not only includes the operating system, it also includes every third party application. Not only they get a part of everybody’s cake, they decide who have cake and who doesn’t by controlling which applications get approval and which get rejected. If Apple ever dominates the industry, it’ll be the dark ages of computers. […]

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