All this recent fuss growing in the last months that peaked (and is still peaking) when iPad came out and people quickly saw that it too – much like iPhone – does not play Flash is driving me mad.<\/p>\n
As much as I love<\/a> Adobe<\/a> I am quite confident that Apple will N-E-V-E-R enable Flash player on their devices. OK, maybe not never, but certainly not in the next 10 years.<\/p>\n Why? Read on. There are two reasons why is that so, you decide which one is more important.<\/p>\n Reason one<\/strong> is that Flash player and capabilities Flash as technology offers are a direct threat to Apple App store. Majority of income through App store comes from retarded fart apps, silly games and simple Apps. The majority of those could be super-easily recreated in 5 minutes through Flash. This in turn means that pretty soon there would be websites that would start charging access to those applications, directly taking away money from App store. Would you pay $2,99 per month to have access to thousands of Flash games and apps, some of which are actually good? Yes, you would. Apple would never allow this sort of competition.<\/p>\n Reason two<\/strong> is Apple’s position as market leader to change things. To force people and companies to innovate. By refusing to enable Flash, Apple is forcing everyone involved to think different. Ha? See what I did there? If Flash was enabled on iOS devices, people would always just take the easy way out and develop something complex in Flash. HTML 5 standard would be stagnant, and develop pretty slowly.<\/p>\n Apple’s refusal to enable Flash gave you HTML 5 enabled YouTube. Do you think that YouTube would develop HTML 5 site if they could easily just serve it through Flash? No, they would not.<\/p>\n
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