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[beardie]

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.

 

[CaptainVimes]

I didn't bad mouth him, apart from adding "arrogant", (as a copied opinion of one of my good friends) the rest of the text was just taken from this very internet. (admittedly probably from the "Applehaters", but still... it wasn't "bad mouthing", just copying the words of others, onto this forum.)

However, I thank you for correcting me.

Personally, I keep well away from the News and such, (sometimes I will visit a "technology website") so I know practically absolutely (do they contradict each other, I don't know) nothing about the world today.

Yes that makes me VERY pig-ignorant

But I find it hard enough to deal with the day to day stresses that my life forces upon me, like having to plan every nanosecond of my day, before I even get out of bed, so I'm never left with so little energy, and so much pain, that I can no longer function as a human being.

The Spoon Theory

 

[AlexBoylan]

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.

Agreed, the same things which are coded in Flash, could be coded in jQuery, JavaScript, and several other programming languages which are supported on various operating systems, without an installation being required, that is assuming you already have a browser; most (commercial) operating systems come with one on installation. However, I highly doubt Steve Jobs had much time to support HTML5, considering he was very busy months and years before he died (surgery on his heart, and what not), so it may have possibly been a decision of another worker in high ranks to decide for Apple to support HTML5 and CSS3.

 

[CaptainVimes]

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ right from the horse's mouth....

 

[AlexBoylan]

The moral of the story: the only tools that Adobe makes that are useful are Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, and After Effects.

 

[AlexBoylan]

This is a bearded dragon forum.