What Steve Jobs knows about web standards
Its interesting, being on both sides of the fence when it comes to the recent announcement from Steve Jobs regarding Adobe’s Flash…
I have friends who refused iPhones and iPad purchases because they wouldnt support Flash and I’m sure that Steve himself heard friends and family and folks around him saying the same things….
Yet, All of us in the back of our minds were probably wondering why, and now the secret is out…
According to Jobs…
- Flash is the #1 reason for mac crashes (Doubt that)
- Flash is a closed code platform (true)
- Flash requires extra cpu juice (true)
- Flash video is dated and not used by everyone (True)
- Not optimized for touch (true)
- Consumes battery life on mobiles (true)
Regardless, by refusing to work with what appears to be the second largest computer selling company and the world’s largest cellular phone manufacturer in the united states, its obvious that Adobe may very well have closed the door for good on Flash…
As a video platform, its quality degrades and it’s support varys and it definitely does require extra clock cycles on a CPU to execute….
Keep an eye out on the mobile web though as this may very well be the next advertising platform to explode businesses… Its definitely a key component of local businesses already even if they’re not yet embracing it.
Even I’ve typed things like “Langley Pizza” into my cell phone…
Daniel J Deyette
