Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, last week declared war on rival Adobe with a scathing attack on its Flash video programming technology. In an open letter he lists six reasons why Apple does not need Flash.

Jobs published a rare open letter branding Flash a failure on mobile devices. Meanwhile, Flash is the most widespread video player technology on the web used by many millions of sites for videos and games.

But here are his six reasons why Flash is a technology of the past:

- The programming foundation is full of software bugs. “Flash is the number one reason Macs crash,” he wrote.
Flash, says Jobs, drains battery life and does not work properly on touchscreen devices.

- Flash puts a third party between Apple and software developers. That means developers could take advantage of improvements from Apple only if Adobe chose to upgrade its own software.

- Other emerging programming standards such as HTML5, can perform many of the same tasks, and are catching on with software developers.

- Leading video and news websites have recoded some videos to make them viewable on the iPhone and iPad.

- “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too).


Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

  • MisterWong
  • Y!GG
  • Webnews
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit