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Old 05-15-2010, 02:25 PM   #245
Maggie Leung
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Originally Posted by kennyc View Post
And that's exactly where iAds (the new advertising service from Apple) is aimed -- Jobs has created a captive market that is fully under his thumb and at his beckon command and he plans on shoving those ads down their throats along with the rest of this iStuff.

The thing is that Flash is not really the issue at all. It's the control that Jobs is after. He's stance against flash is certainly ideological (see previous post) moreso than technical.
Let's say that's the case. (Again, I don't care about Steve Jobs.) So he wants control so he can milk money out of customers and people who want to sell to his customers. I can't begrudge a business person that. He has no obligation otherwise.

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