Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash
Conclusions.
Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.
The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.
New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices and PCs too. Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Steve Jobs
April, 2010
via Thoughts on Flash.
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With all of the buzz and speculation surrounding both Apple’s choice to not support flash on the iPhone or iPad and their change in the SDK agreement which has the effect of prohibiting developers to use Adobe’s tools to shoehorn in html5 support, I am happy to finally read straight from the brain of Steve Jobs “Why”.
This has been reported as largely the edict of a dictator. But as I read Steve’s logic, I must admit, it makes sense. Those of us in the dot com business will do well to take heed. And at the end of the day, I believe what we will have is a better web.
I’m most interested to see what Zynga does with this information. As one who has to listen to constant rants about Farmville, I can only imagine what would happen to our society when Farmville comes to the iPad. Images of Wall-E come to mind.