[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by mca

Honestly I don't give a crap about the iPad b/c of Steve Jobs' stance on NOT including the Flash Player. As a Flash Developer, I am pretty ticked off. Without Flash, the iPad can't be coined as the tool for the "ultimate browsing experience." It doesn't bother me at all that Flash isn't on the iPhone or iPod Touch - these two devices are not designed with the web experiene in mind.

I understand that there may be some struggles between Adobe and Apple - and most certainly Adobe is partially to blame. But Jobs is basically trying to dictate what type of content people can view. Why not give iPad owners the option of installing Flash? Makes no sense.

There are a lot of Flash haters out there. I attribute most of this to Flash banner ads (which I despise) and stupid sites with autoplay video (ESPN). Also, there are TONS of crappy Flash programmers out there that don't properly manage CPU or garbage collection. This results in CPU hogging - which is more apparent on the Mac b/c Apple won't allow Adobe to use hardware acceleration.

Then there is the HTML5 crowd that thinks it is going to be the death of Flash. This too is completely off base. I could easily list a hundred things that HTML5 will never be able to accomplish. And even with interactive pieces that can be done in both HTML5 and Flash, the development time in Flash will likely be 1/3 of that in HTML5 (cross browser issues, cross platform issues, etc).

Sorry for the rant. But I am tired of Apple's progressive, arrogant attitude. I absolutely love my iPhone and iPod Touch ... but I hate that Apple thinks that they are the all-knowing overlords who can dictate what people want. Reminds me very much of our current government imposing their will on the people.

Apples not the only one looking to dethrone Flash.

Silverlight.