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Originally Posted by kjk
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Fans of companies tend to take things so personally, and expect "their" favorite companies to act in the same manner. Most businesses really are above that kind of pettiness, and are act on different motivations.
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My point doesn't really have anything to do with a company. I don't care about Adobe, but I do care that many of the sites I go to are not supported at all, or only partially supported, on the iPhone.
While I can put up with it on the iPhone, on the iPad this would be unacceptable. I would imagine, many others, who may not even know what Flash is, would be irate, when their new "internet gadget" cannot display significant portions of web content.
As to kilron's surprise that most see the "millions of iPhones and iPod touches that are sold every quarter as miniscule?" - yes, it is. In the US, mobile browsers account for just over 1.3% of site hits, and for less worldwide. Worldwide, Nokia has by far the greatest browser share, with Opera mobile second.
Then there is Android, which is coming in at full force in 2010, with tons of new models.
Android's share in the last 2 months of 2009 shot up 54.8%, to BlackBerrys's 22.2%, and iPhone's 20.1% increase.
Of the big ones, only the iPhone will not be capable of supporting full Flash 10. And of course, it looks like the iPad will be without Flash support.
If Jobs thinks this is not going to hurt the iPhone, and particularly the iPad, he is in for a nasty surprise, IMO.
BTW, people who turn off Flash are hardcore, indeed, in the sense that they are in a tiny, tiny minority of Flash-haters. Right up there with the "typewriter forever" and the "flat-earth" societies....
