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Frosstbyte · 04-04-2010, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru

It's not about "upgrading" or "keeping up with the times." If you want to know what specifically Apple doesn't like about Adobe Flash, consider this, which is what Jobs said about it recently at one of Apple's "Town Hall Meetings":

They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, the world is moving to HTML5.

Steve Jobs Unleashes His Fury During Town Hall Meeting

Also consider that security is another issue:
Adobe - Security bulletins and advisories
Expert says Adobe Flash policy is risky
Adobe Could Be Your Security Weakest Link - PCWorld Business Center

The problem is that these are all strawmans. Flash crashes so much and is such a security hole because it is so ubiquitous. There are millions of programmers around the world using or trying to use the language and some of them are simply better at doing it than others. Flash is enough more complicated that people are going to screw up and cause errors and crashes. If html5 achieves the same degree of success as flash, we're going to run into the same problem all over again.

Apple's making a mistake, and they're hiding behind bad reasons for that mistake with justifications that don't make any sense in the big picture. Alas, it's a waste of breath. They've made their choice. I just hope the market innovates a solution, either by forcing apple to recant or by forcing the rest of the world to adopt an equivalent or better standard.