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What Jobs says is totally consistent from his perspective (or if you will, from within his reality distortion field): In a world, where there is only apple devi

What Jobs says is totally consistent from his perspective (or if you will, from within his reality distortion field): In a world, where there is only apple devices, Flash indeed has outlived its usefulness because there is no need for multi platform rich application/content development/authoring when there is only one platform left. Surely, that is how Jobs would like to perceive the state of affairs. Given how well Apple is currently doing in leading the mobile device space, his vision does seem to to converge with reality. Unless of course, the competition will get their act together and do something with Android that will have as much mainstream-appeal as the iPhone.

jstevens85 16y ago
> In a world, where there is only apple devices, Flash indeed has outlived its usefulness because there is no need for multi platform rich application/content development/authoring when there is only one platform left. If that is indeed Jobs' view, why is Apple putting so much effort into advancing open multiplatform technologies like HTML5 and WebGL? Surely if there was only one platform left, then everyone could write 3D content specifically for the iPhone OS. There wouldn't be a need for anyone to use WebGL, so why are they wasting their effort in implementing it in WebKit? Here's another explanation. Jobs believes that in 2-3 years time, browsers and mobile CPUs will have advanced to the point where HTML5 is equivalent to Flash in most scenarios. So why bother wasting engineering resources on trying to get Flash working acceptably on the iPhone when the technology may be obsolete within a few years? Why not just get those engineers to instead work on improving JS performance in Mobile Safari?
jk8 16y ago
I would like to know why people say "In a world, where there is only apple devices..." and make a claim. Please don't get angry or upset, but I am really curious. I think it comes across a bit negative.

jstevens85 16y ago

> In a world, where there is only apple devices, Flash indeed has outlived its usefulness because there is no need for multi platform rich application/content development/authoring when there is only one platform left. If that is indeed Jobs' view, why is Apple putting so much effort into advancing open multiplatform technologies like HTML5 and WebGL? Surely if there was only one platform left, then everyone could write 3D content specifically for the iPhone OS. There wouldn't be a need for anyone to use WebGL, so why are they wasting their effort in implementing it in WebKit? Here's another explanation. Jobs believes that in 2-3 years time, browsers and mobile CPUs will have advanced to the point where HTML5 is equivalent to Flash in most scenarios. So why bother wasting engineering resources on trying to get Flash working acceptably on the iPhone when the technology may be obsolete within a few years? Why not just get those engineers to instead work on improving JS performance in Mobile Safari?

jk8 16y ago

I would like to know why people say "In a world, where there is only apple devices..." and make a claim. Please don't get angry or upset, but I am really curious. I think it comes across a bit negative.