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[Tex]

re Flash

The fact that Flash is kind of a bad actor, assuming it can eat unlimited CPU, makes it rough on mobiles. Possibly a bigger reason for Jobs to resist licensing it is that iPhone, while a minority of the handset sales, appears to dwarf other platforms in actual online use -- making Apple possibly of the opinion that it can pull the web toward iPhone rather than having to accommodate the web's use of proprietary codecs.

Honestly, I would not miss Flash if it disappeared. If it's true that the codecs involved are bad (performance, efficiency, etc.) then all the better -- HOWEVER, Flash now supports H.264:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=652
... so the question is, does Flash performance depend on something besides a misbehaving codec, or is this more about politics? Will codec licensing push people onto H.264 and away from the other codecs over time?

Will Adobe create and demonstrate a Flash plug-in that is a good citizen on iPhone, or the Mac generally?

Interesting stuff. Personally, I've seen so many bad UIs in Flash that I can't really say I'd want it on an iPhone if I had an alternative.

And what about Java? Is that dead, too? Or is it a matter of getting it to perform well and play well with others without Apple having to support it? Will Sun development of iPhone JVM mean a better MacOS X JVM?

How the world has changed -- Apple migrates Cocoa to Java to lure developers on, Apple deprecates Java/Cocoa, Apple nixes Java on iPhone ... how the parties' positions have changed in a decade.

Take care,
--Tex.