Automatic Flash Conversion to HTML5 / Javascript enables Flash on the iPhone and the iPad!

I’m sure that you already know by now that Steve Jobs doesn’t like flash. Ok, this is not exactly how he said it… but close enough. (read about his thoughts on Flash). Either way, the fact is that iPhones and iPads doesn’t run Flash. Steve says that all sites should be developed in HTML5 and no flash is needed and flash drains your batteries and flash is the root of all evil, etc.

I won’t go into the discussion whether he is right or [Continue...]

IPhone and iPad will never support Flash! True Story!

Steve Jobs posted an open letter yesterday explaining why Flash is banned from iPhones, iPods and iPads.

He started saying that he hasn’t got anything against Adobe and also reminded us that once Apple owned 20% of Adobe.

There are 6 reasons, he says, why they don’t and never will use Flash.

1 Openness

Jobs says that flash is a proprietary platform and that they prefer their devices to be based on open standards like HTML5, CSS and javascript. They don’t want them to be based on a platform that it is controlled by a single company, like [Continue...]