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Well, I'm quite certain (I follow these things rather closely) the driving factor was the licensing costs. Adobe was being ridiculous on how they wanted it to be licensed. I don't doubt that Steve Jobs wanted to stick to standards. Personally, I don't see pushing for STANDARDS to be arrogant. The Internet was created because standards were heavily pushed for and enforced. Proprietary formats that do not gain adoption into a standard goes against the foundations of the Internet and has proven time and time again to be bad for consumers.
HTML5 is pushed for by a LOT more than just Steve Jobs. W3C in conjunction with a number of the larger technology companies (I believe even Microsoft) came up with HTML5 so that more than one company was controlling things. Making a Flash website drives everything through Adobe. Standards allow many companies to work on their own things and being able to trust it will work. Flash hasn't just been the bain of existence for Apple, but for most browsers attempts to make things more secure for users. Flash is probably the BIGGEST security hole in browsers (and thus compters), possibly even over Internet Explorer security bugs.
Flash needs to die, and standards not owned by a single company need to be adopted for things to be able to grow. This has proven to hold true time and time again for decades, if not centuries (beyond just the scope of the Internet). Flash was good at first, but is not holding growth and innovation back. I will never bad mouth a company (or former CEO) for waving the flag of using standard formats and protocols.
HTML5 is pushed for by a LOT more than just Steve Jobs. W3C in conjunction with a number of the larger technology companies (I believe even Microsoft) came up with HTML5 so that more than one company was controlling things. Making a Flash website drives everything through Adobe. Standards allow many companies to work on their own things and being able to trust it will work. Flash hasn't just been the bain of existence for Apple, but for most browsers attempts to make things more secure for users. Flash is probably the BIGGEST security hole in browsers (and thus compters), possibly even over Internet Explorer security bugs.
Flash needs to die, and standards not owned by a single company need to be adopted for things to be able to grow. This has proven to hold true time and time again for decades, if not centuries (beyond just the scope of the Internet). Flash was good at first, but is not holding growth and innovation back. I will never bad mouth a company (or former CEO) for waving the flag of using standard formats and protocols.