The truth is that it’s Adobe’s fault there’s no Flash on the majority of mobiles, because the company was completely happy just misleading the world of pundits while talking instead of doing. Well it’s not 2007 anymore, it’s 2010, and that’s three years of work that everyone else has put into HTML5.
Seriously. I wondered when someone was going to bring up this obvious point. Everyone says Apple is being obstructionist in their strategy to ignore Flash on the iPhone (and, now, iPad), but the fact is, there was not, and still is no decent mobile version of Flash that Apple could have picked to run on the iPhone. And we still have yet to see a shipping mobile device that *can* do Flash, and we don't even know how compatible those devices will be with "desktop" Flash.
In short -- Sure, Apple's no saint. But Adobe is just as much to blame in this whole Flash mess.
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