in reference to: Why Steve Jobs Loves Adobe Flash — RoughlyDrafted Magazine (view on Google Sidewiki)
This article depicts the author's typical "Apple reigns supreme" view. Oddly enough, I agree with the majority of his article. There's a couple false "facts" in here, including that Flash is a closed system, Flash drains battery life, and Flash doesn't support multitouch. There's a decent handful of apps already submitted and approved by Apple that prove the last two of these to be fallacies.
The main point of this article is that Jobs likes Flash on all Mobile OSs other than the iPhone because it will weaken his competition. I'd say that's probably correct, and that really is Jobs' sentiment. However, I think it's a very dangerous and risky move on his part, because the vast majority of people like freedom of choice more than anything else.
People risk their lives on a daily basis to try and get into America. Why? Freedom! Freedom of CHOICE. Freedom to become whatever you want. I don't think that the mobile platform war is going to turn out any differently, and people will flock to the competition for the freedom of choice. Will the competition be weakened? Their product may suffer, but the freedom of choice could very well outweigh that by magnitudes.
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