Follow the Flash War
Apple and Adobe are in a war over Flash. Here’s a list of articles covering the feud:
- Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5
November 8, 2011 - Jobs Opens Up About iPhone Leak, Abobe Flash, and More
June 2, 2010 - Adobe Stops Flash Development for Creating iPhone Apps
April 20, 2010 - Steve Jobs ‘ Thoughts on Flash’
April 28, 2010 - Initial Adobe Response
April 29, 2010 - Adobe ‘Our thoughts on open markets’
May 13, 2010
Related Articles:
- Time Warner, Universal push back at iPad
CNET - Adobe-Apple war on Flash reminiscent of PostScript struggle
Apple Insider - HTML5 And Flash: Why It’s Not A War, And Why Flash Won’t Die
Smashing Magazine - Is Flash as bad as Apple says?
MacWorld - Scribd social publishing site dumps Flash in favor of HTML5
MacWorld - Hulu Shuns HTML5 Commits to Flash, Adobe Attacks Apple
TrustedReviews - Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’
Gawker - Flash vs Javascript (jQuery) Pros and Cons
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If you have other article links please post as comments.
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Written by: Don Lyckman Don Lyckman is a Web Developer/Designer |
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Love the iPhone, but hate the restrictions. Android is gaining traction and even though it means double the development effort I think the market is rapidly evolving so not much different than separately writing apps for Windows & Mac.
Most of Jobs reasons for rejecting Flash seem to follow the path of wanting to reject Flash first then trying to find plausible reasons to support that decision.