Old (June 2007) but still strangely relevant:<p>"Excluding Flash is a huge slap in the face of Adobe, which is pushing Flash as the basis of its AIR and Flex web application strategies. Adobe likes to advertise that nearly every PC has a Flash plugin installed. Suddenly, nearly every mobile that has access to the real Internet won't have Flash, making it far less attractive across the board."<p><a href="http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/879DD82D-5595-4746-BFCE-524BBA7C7A85.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/879DD82D-559...</a><p>I like Daniel Eran Dilger/RoughlyDrafted because he has some interesting non-echo-chamber opinions on the world of Apple and technology
Apple has always had issues with non-quick-time video formats and codecs. Competing video formats were second class citizens for years. I learned this the hard way studying graphics and animation on Macs for a couple of years.<p>It doesn't surprise me that Jobs is doing this with the IPhone as well.
It's fine that Flash for regular computers and Flash Lite aren't suitable. All that means is that Adobe and Apple should have been working on a "middle ground" version over the last 1+ year. They <i>should</i> be announcing the release now -- those lazy bastards.