[ Thanks to Amy
Bennett for this link. ]
“Here’s the harsh lesson to be learned: we are finally starting
to see a strong push back on non-open standards–like Flash–that
will ultimately spell the end of these closed technologies.“It’s easy to credit Steve Jobs, of all people, for starting
this particular ball rolling when he refused to allow Flash on iOS.
People came back and decried this as a suicide run, since Flash was
so prevalent. The iPhone and the iPad would never truly succeed,
pundits argued, if people could not watch their YouTube videos.
That, clearly, did not happen. And, even though I personally don’t
believe Jobs wouldn’t lock up his own set of standards if he though
he could get away with it, he did indeed precipitate this chain of
events.“With Apple so successful at pushing HTML5, it now seems that
Microsoft wants to get in the game with their own HTML5/JavaScript
play, Windows 8. I wrote about what that might mean for .NET and
Mono developers, but what would that also mean for Flash
developers? It doesn’t seem like anything good, that’s for
sure.”