Steve Jobs Claims Flash Will Kill the Mobile Web
Found on Wired on Wednesday, 28 April 2010
The most difficult circle Jobs squares is the issue of open vs. proprietary: He acknowledges that Apple's products are closed but that devices and products are different than the web.
"Another Adobe claim is that Apple devices cannot play Flash games. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50,000 games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free."
Now wait, Steve wasn't really serious about open vs. proprietary, right? Steve keeps an iron grip on what can run on his iStuff, denying people the freedom to do what they want with hardware they paid for; that's not really "open". The PC world would be nowhere close to where it is now if developers would have had to register every program with Microsoft or IBM. While is true that you can do perfectly fine without Flash, Steve has pulled the worst argument ever to defend his position.