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Originally Posted by kilron
as for the open-source flash alternatives... that's a tricky route to go. have any major browsers or companies used these? adobe definitely wouldn't support it and my guess is if apple DID go that route, adobe would do things to force incompatibility. the only true way is for adobe themselves to open up the source code for flash player and make it an open standard.
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The Flash format is already open. Creation and playback tools have been around for a while now. In most markets, they don't compete because the Flash player from Adobe is already free, but I could see someone developing a plugin for Safari on iP* using this code.
I personally don't care much about Flash. A lot of it is ads, which I block. (I don't mind text ads, but I don't need flashing noisy stuff while I'm trying to look something up online.) I also don't spend much time at YouTube or similar sites. I now have two bits of video on my iPod Touch, for the first time. (Both are Muppet music videos.
) But I could have done without those. I'm more interested in reading and markup, and listening to podcasts of my favorite NPR shows if I'm driving at a time when they're not on.