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Originally Posted by caleb72
As to the original question, I don't particularly like Apple and reside more in the MS camp when it comes to preferred suppliers. However, I was a bit philosophical about Apple not supporting flash as I liked the idea of it being replaced with open standards HTML5.
At the same time, I did think it was rather stupid of Apple to remove flash as I thought it would harm the browsing experience. I don't know if that's really played out though, so I'm less inclined to say that MS are stupid for following suit.
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As a whole, I don't think that a bunch of people have switched to HTML5, but I don't hear much complaints about no flash on iOS.
Personally, I don't mind Flash being replaced by HTML5. Flash is horrible under Linux (I've had youtube videos bring an AMD64 3800+ with a gig and a half of RAM crawling along), a pain in embedded environments due to Macromedia and Adobe lagging years behind on the versions allowed in embedded environments, and just plain crappy in general.
The above noted, especially when it comes to embedded (which is part of why Apple didn't add flash support), I understand why iOS has no flash support. Why would you want something that is inefficient, and not always compatible with things on the web (the latest version of Flash Lite, the embedded version, is based on five year old Flash 9, despite the number of Flash 10 apps out there (Flash 10 has been available for 3 years now)).