Not so Fly
The debate about Flash and Apple has been going for a long time and ReadWriteWeb continues to try and help us understand the options and the choices made.
In a great review of HTML5 versus Flash http://bit.ly/d8Oke0, they cover the pluses and minuses of both but it was the last paragraph that caught my attention and made me pissed. "Will Apple budge [enabling Adobe to introduce a more effecient Flash (10.1) for the Mac, which they claim they can't because they don't have access to the required APIs]? At this point, it's unlikely. In blocking Flash on Apple devices, the company can easily claim that it's simply not an efficient technology...and that's true for now, considering how it's set up. But if the company wanted to allow it and make it work, it seems reasonable to believe that they could. This is what leads some insiders to believe that the decision to block Flash is less of a technological one and more of a business-minded one. After all, if you could easily visit Hulu.com to stream TV shows and movies, then why would you need to buy them from the iTunes Store?" I'm pissed because Apple can get away with something that's bad for the user and bad for innovation. Monopolies can be disguised in beautiful packaging but it's still monopolistic behavior and this is not where we should be today. Come on guys.