In an open letter published on the Apple website, the venerable Mr. Jobs has thrown down the gauntlet:
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
Hallelujah! Finally someone with some power standing up for web standards. I suspected that the i-device refusal of Flash was a trojan horse for HTML5 and this confirms it. Adobe has the interweb by the balls and its time to loosen their grip.
There’s a lot of criticism directed at Jobs for calling for openness when his own products are closed. But seriously, who cares about closed devices? Apple made the iPhone and iPad, they can do whatever they want with them. There is competition in those markets, consumers have a choice. But nobody owns the internet and its in everyone’s best interest to keep it that way.