Most of us are now familiar with the heated relations between Adobe and Apple, especially after Apple's strict move to remove support for Adobe's CS5 professional software. Steve Jobs, CEO Apple has posted his views online about the relations with Adobe and the future of Flash and streaming media, especially on mobile devices.
The letter defends Apple's claims about the shortcomings in the Flash player and how it’s not suited for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Steve has pointed out several defects in the product and compares it with the alternatives such as HTML5. According to Steve, Apple doesn't support propriety web development software. This is because the close standards don’t allow community to bring changes in order to meet demands of user base. Thus Apple supports HTML5 which is both light and open-source. Steve also negates the claim that without supporting Flash, Apple users are deprived of the complete web experience. He claims that majority of the streaming websites including YouTube are supported on iDevices out of the box.
He further criticizes the performance and security features of the Flash product by commenting that Flash is both unsecure and requires high system resources which in-turn reduces battery timings of mobile devices. As compared to H.264 video standard which is hardware decoded on iPhone, the flash media only runs in software which requires almost twice the hardware resources, thus decreasing the battery life to almost half. Flash based applications such as games and utilities are not suited for touch-enabled devices, thus these applications fails to bring a better user experience.
Steve also comments on the company's move last month to ban Adobe's CS5 flash to iPhone compiler which will disable Adobe's move to port flash applications onto iDevices. Apple claims that third-party applications are not optimized to run on the iPhone and proved to be sluggish. The intermediate layer also restricts the developers to make full use of the underlying hardware which results in poor application performance and value.
In short, Steve Jobs believes that unless Flash improves in the areas listed above, he doesn't see it to become viable in coming years. You can read the complete script of the Steve's letter here.
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Commented by: AHmed, 5 May, 2010
This is really a good news. This will help to improve iphone application development. Will be a good future
Commented by: David, 5 May, 2010
I agree with you Ahmed - I think that Steve Jobs is doing an excellent (as always) job at pushing the development forward.
Commented by: trinadh, 14 May, 2010
This is really a good news. This will help to improve iphone application development. Will be a good future