But the Evil empire may very well be Apple(yes, not Microsoft!). The not so recent Steve Jobs outburst on Adobe "being lazy" and consequently Flash being not supported on iPad may turn out to be a key battle ground for web content delivery standards.
Flash according to Jobs is buggy(consequently crashes apple OS); CPU hog; and proprietary; hence Apple roots for HTML5 instead. But Java(remember!) inspite of being stable and open source finds no place on the Apple platform either. So why would Apple not support Flash in-spite of being used for 75% of all videos on web & 90% of interactive ads ?
Apple today is not only a Hardware / Software maker but also a Content deliverer, which wants to control the sources from which customers get their entertainment. Flash and Java can both act as content delivery systems via the web, completely bypassing the App Store thereby threatening a lucrative revenue source. So Apple is hiding behind the garb of Flash being buggy (if microsoft can make Flash work Apple definately can... also if Flash was that bad it wouldn't available on 98% of world's internet enabled computers) and therby controlling the way customers access content. Had this been done by Microsoft everyone would be up in arms...maybe it's time to ask Apple some tough questions!
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