04-10-2010, 03:16 AM
samintx wrote:
Isn't Steve cutting off his nose.....etc etc....What is his problem with Flash?
Apple's problem with Flash are many and varied, Suzanne. Flash is a prime source of security and stability problems. It is also a processor hog and that, in turn, leads to excess power consumption and heat. While processor hogging is significantly more serious on the Mac platform, Flash implementations on Windows encounter the same issues.
Beyond those problems, Flash is owned and entirely controlled by Adobe. Because of Flash's unfortunate ubiquity on the commons known as the World Wide Web, Adobe can hold this commons (or elements of it) hostage to its private interests. Apple, on the other hand, is promoting open standards in general and, in particular, the open HTML5 standard as a specific replacement for Flash technologies.