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Old 02-23-2011, 09:32 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by petermillard View Post
Short version; Apple/Jobs doesn't want core parts of the iOS 'experience' to be reliant on proprietary software controlled by another party - who would? That Flash was a buggy crashy battery-draining resource hog helped make the case against it, but it was always about control of the platform, and a move towards 'open standards' e.g. HTML5.
That last part is complete rubbish, they are happy to settle for open standards only when they don't have a closed option that they control and as far as the apple propaganda against flash, a fair amount of the problems with it on macs are caused by apple and not just adobe.
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