The day Apple won the Flash fight

Fluff article, really despise these immature "wars" and biased blogs. I own an Android phone, iPad, Touchpad, and a Windows laptop. I use the best technology I can and let results decide my decisions rather than brand loyalty.<p>The new Media Server is for video content only - your iOS device will still be missing Flash content. Competent websites have already solved this problem. I'm all for HTML5 taking over as long as browser compatibility is maintained and developer tools improve for both designers and developers. For now, Flash wins in the performance, cross-browser compatibility, and developer tools.<p><a href="http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/" rel="nofollow">http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/</a>

People seems to forget that Adobe is a company that makes tools. For Adobe, it has never been Flash versus HTML5. It's about giving tools that people are willing to buy or upgrade to. Even if the iPhone had never existed, Adobe would still be adding HTML5 and mobile support for their products.

I find this a little ironic as today Apple also chose to highlight a Flash app as its iPad Game of The Week: <a href="http://yfrog.com/nxvz8p" rel="nofollow">http://yfrog.com/nxvz8p</a><p>Machinarium is a popular flash game that runs on iPad through Adobe AIR for mobile. My guess is we'll see a lot more native Flash games on the app store as processor speed increases, and even more impressive work when Flash 11 ships its Stage3D GPU acceleration for mobile (part of the Molehill project).

&#62; Basically, Adobe is acknowledging Apple has won when it comes to Flash.<p>Why does this article have to have a "vs." narrative? Is it possible that Adobe just wants to succeed and will do what it takes to gain profits?<p>And I'm not so sure Apple has <i>won</i> just yet. If a device were to gain the traction necessary to gain enough marketshare (you saw a bit of this with HP's TouchPad), <i>we support Flash</i> is a pretty decent incentive for the average consumer who isn't caught up in the HTML5 vs. Flash war (read: every average person).

From an ActionScript developer's point of view it still takes too long to develop anything interactive in html5. So for the sake of time cost/income, I'll continue to push interactive content out in flash, while using html5 for linear stuff.<p>With the recent news of unity for flash, the whole thing is about to embark on a new adventure.

Apple did not win anything, Adobe just decided to support a device which has a large enough user base to be 'worth it'.<p>If Apple had sold a few hundred thousand of these then this would have never happened.

This article is written very childishly and is completely devoid of anything non opinion. This person is obviously neither a market strategist, nor a competent reporter.

Before the iPhone it seemed like everyone agreed that Flash sucked, but after iOS that was taken to be some kind of Apple fanboy position. Which is to say, plenty of people with no particular allegiance to Apple have been unhappy with Flash for a long time, so there is no need to paint this as some kind of unilateral war on Apple's part. Flash is crappy and it's finally, slowly dying, that's all.

It's been more than a year after Jobs' post disparaging Flash and promising that HTML5 can fill much of the gap.<p>While it has improved, HTML5 on iOS still lags behind a lot. Apple wins the Flash fight when Angry Birds can run on HTML5. Maybe that is what they're afraid of.