Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch recent made the defense for Adobe Flash technology and warned that the HTML 5 standard video would throw the Internet back to the “Dark Era.”
First, here’s Lynch on Apple’s failure to support Flash on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad:
We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.
And later:
Engaging with ideas and information also means ensuring there is an open ecosystem and freedom to view and interact with the content and applications a user chooses. This model of open access has proven to be more effective in the long term than a walled approach, where a manufacturer tries to determine what users are able to see or approves and disapproves individual content and applications. We strongly believe the web should remain an open environment with consistent access to content and applications regardless of your viewing device.
HTML5 is still a young technology, and those incompatibility issues can be solved over time. Flash is still a more capable technology when it comes to rendering video, but HTML5 is advancing faster and as a native Web standard it has many other advantages which may help it win over time.
With regard to Apple, Lynch said, Adobe can provide Flash support for these equipments such as iPhone and iPad , however, more than a year Apple is keep rejecting. Lynch said: “Once Apple agreed to provide users with Flash, we can immediately implant Flash into browser. But so far, we have not received necessary support from Apple.”
Lynch pointed out that upcoming Flash 10.1 software for smart phone, including Android, BlackBerry, Nokia and Palm Pre. If these phones support Flash, then it is clearly Apple’s fault if iPhone does not support Flash.
But in the long term, the greater threat of Flash is HTML 5 standard, especially in video playback. Lynch said that75% of Internet video displays through the Flash Player at present. If the HTML 5 starts, Flash’s share will go down, and Google and other companies are using YouTube and Chrome browser to promote the HTML 5 standard. In this regard, Lynch said, HTML 5 will not pose threat to Flash right now, Adobe will support HTML 5.
Adobe is in a battle for developers, who buy its Creative Suite software to make Flash apps. As long as Flash is the de facto standard for video and animation on the Web, those sales will not be threatened. But if Flash developers migrate to other technologies to build better apps for the Web and mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad, Adobe’s competitive position will be weakened. It will defend Flash to the death.
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