another cultural lesson

[rone]

If it had been Microsoft that started strangling the life out of Flash, Mac weenies worldwide would have been up in arms.  But because it's Apple, all of a sudden it's OK and part of the circle of life on the Internets.

Also, how did Robert Scoble's opinion become worthy of any modicum of respect?  The man is an affront to oxygen-breathing lifeforms worldwide.

Comments

[eagle]

Speaking as neither an Apple weenie nor a Microsoft weenie, Flash is not inspiring me to defend it. It's proprietary, buggy, obnoxious crap that serves primarily as a way to attempt to shove more advertising down my throat. And despite all that ubiquity, after years and years of this Adobe still can't manage to produce a 64-bit native plugin that doesn't immediate segfault Firefox.

I doubt Apple's alternative is going to make me that much happier, but at least if it's just yet another broken, patent-protected video codec, I have mechanisms for handling that which are more effective than what one has to do to deal with Flash on some platform where Adobe can't make money.