Jobs on Apple and Flash

[vasa1]

Steve Jobs Shares His Thoughts On Flash
link

[Sope]

Quite an interesting article, thanks for pointing it out.

[freedog96150]

My sentiments on all these silly battles between Jobs and Adobe, Ellison and MS, Dell-lovers and Dell-haters, and all the rest of the lot -- Most are high on opinion and short on fact.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by freedog96150

My sentiments on all these silly battles between Jobs and Adobe, Ellison and MS, Dell-lovers and Dell-haters, and all the rest of the lot -- Most are high on opinion and short on fact.

I would support whoever is the more open. I hate Flash mainly because of how it is being misused. The background is this: not everyone has a high-speed connection with unlimited quotas. Some sites use flash on their home page and subsidiary links are built into the flash file. So, blocking flash is not an option if one wants to get information from these sites.

[vasa1]

PC World's follow-up on Job's letter: link

[J_L]

Flash is still necessary imo. The latest versions supports your graphics card (even Macs!, well probably not the stable version) to some extent, thus speeding it up.

[Jojoyee]

Adobe and Apple CEO's Square Off --
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sits down with Alan Murray and fires back at Steve Jobs in latest round of flash fight.

Highlights: The Journal’s Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO

[Jojoyee]

An executive at Microsoft joined in later that day, saying while consumers require Flash for access to a wide array of video content on the web, the software has flaws.

Microsoft Sides With Apple On Flash Issue

Microsoft Corp joined archrival Apple Inc in criticizing Adobe Systems Inc's widely used Flash multimedia software... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100430/...rosoft_adobe_2

[freedog96150]

So MS sides with arch rival to slam competing product...how original of them.

[vasa1]

Originally Posted by vasa1

I would support whoever is the more open. I hate Flash mainly because of how it is being misused. The background is this: not everyone has a high-speed connection with unlimited quotas. Some sites use flash on their home page and subsidiary links are built into the flash file. So, blocking flash is not an option if one wants to get information from these sites.

Here's an example of a site belonging to a Government of India-owned corporation, Engineers India.

Their front-page navigation is via a shockwave-flash file:
This site is not rated by WOT so I've introduced spaces in the link:
h t t p : // engineersindia . eil . co . in /