I’d rather see open standards rather than proprietary ones on the interweb, for sure. But in the meantime Flash is critical for video.
I don't see why it's critical for video. I mean, the iPhone has been using YouTube since it first came out, because YouTube made it work ... :-) (makes sense...).
And I don't know what's wrong with H.264/MPEG-4 AVC ... as it seems to work very well ...
And you're going to see all the other places "making it work" too... in the same way. When you've got the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad ... they're gonna change ... :-)
I posted elsewhere ...
I had to laugh at this paragraph in an article on the buggy trashware flashware ... :-)
On the other hand, Jean-Louis Gassée (a former Apple executive) proposes a simple thought-experiment: "By the end of 2010, there will be more than 100 million iPhone OS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad). You're the webmeister at an important content site. The boss comes in and asks you why you're not supporting the iPhone OS devices. 'Our stuff is all Flash-based, chief, those guys don't run Flash'. You're about to become the ex-webmeister. The boss, a really patient sort, asks you to 'think different' about all these 'noncompliant' customers, each of whom has an iTunes account backed by a credit card, and has developed the habit (encouraged by Apple) of paying for content. So, one more time, with feeling: what's your answer?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/apr/18/adobe-flash-apple-iphone-ipad ...]
> I don't see why it's critical for video.
Don't forget, you're posting to someone who's used just about every computer OS out there...
Just because Linux exists doesn't mean you don't need Windows on your business desktop somewhere. I use Linux to run Windows VMs.
Just because OpenOffice exists doesn't mean you don't need MS-Office to communicate seamlessly with customers who use it. I have both on my machines.
Just because something other than Flash exists doesn't mean you can do without Flash in TODAY's interweb. I'd like to have the option of having Flash on my iPod.