There have been numerous reports circulating around the internet about how Flash CS5′s native iPhone Application compiler is, effectively, doomed.
There have also been a variety of reactions to this, from the informed (“I don’t like it, but Apple has every right to do so”) to the very ill-informed (“Flash Sucks!”), so let me state my position in the matter: this whole thing stinks like a dead carcass wrapped in burnt bacon thrown in a washing machine filled with raw sewage. Continue reading
This post is a comment in reply to user sentiments on a recent Mashable poll titled “HTML5 Knocks Out Adobe Flash in Reader Vote”, with some minor changes for clarity.
I’ve mentioned to people before, Adobe is at a critical point here. They can choose to sit on their arses and ignore HTML5, which will steamroll Flash when it does come into play. Or they can choose to do something better with it. Adobe’s strategic advantage will be that they have control over the progress of the Flash platform, and they need to use that to quickly make itself relevant in a HTML5 world.
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