Hollywood tells Jobs it wants Flash

[stiz]

another nail in the coffin for jobs?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1651010/hollywood-tells-jobs-flash

 

[Ken Stallings]

Anytime you artiificially limit the scope of your business model merely to retain ironclad power and control, you set yourself up for encroachment into your market. Jobs did this once and almost did not survive. In fact, a little reported fact is that Job's supposed rival, Microsoft's Bill Gates, bailed Apple out with a vital cash infusion.

The industry was shocked! Why would Gates bail out his primary rival?

Gates said it was because Microsoft needed the competition to retain its own competitive advantage! Truer words could not be spoken! It again pointed out that for all the negative press he received, Bill Gates was truly a visionary who understood that you cannot control the entire market. Yeah, sure, Microsoft ended up dominating the market, but did so through acquisitions and savvy policies. Microsoft has an open architecture. Apple O/S has been a closed architecture.

Now that Jobs again had a chance to open up the market with the iPhone, he chose instead to retain ironclad control. Now the Android series threatens the iPhone and iPad's once dominant market share.

Let the strength of your product determine your destiny, not the strength of your marketing strategy!

Ken

 

[Kodan]

another nail in the coffin for jobs?

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1651010/hollywood-tells-jobs-flash

Probably not the best first post, but anyways...

Nail in the coffin? Seriously? Last time NBC resisted Apple, they lost and came crawling back. Many other media companies have already began making their websites iPad friendly, and others have expressed interest in doing so. As much as the delusional authors of the article would like to believe, Apple hasn't "lost" anything.

As for Flash on Android, streaming video is choppy, it is only compatible with a number of websites, and Google's own presentations have shown it to be unreliable. Also, there is no way to get around the battery life issue.

Google themselves have expressed interest in moving away from Flash, as have Microsoft. Flash is not the future.

This article is extremely biased.

To compound the bad news for Jobs, while fanbois everywhere misleadingly claimed that Apple, yesterday, had somehow toppled the Vole to become the "biggest technology company", thanks only to its inflated share price, today the roles have been reversed again, with Microsoft's market capitalisation once more eclipsing Apple's.

Erm, what? Apple barely nudged past Microsoft, and one would only expect the two companies are going to trade places a few times, especially with the stock market being so unstable. The idiot authors of this article made it look like no one realized this.

Microsoft's market capitalization eclipsing Apple's? MSFT's market cap is 226.11B, and APPL's is 233.74B. Yep, Microsoft is really eclipsing Apple.

 

[Allen]

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Google themselves have expressed interest in moving away from Flash, as have Microsoft. Flash is not the future.

Flash may not be the future but it IS the here and now. If Apple dose not suport the here and now (Flash) They will have no future.

Google and Microsoft may want to move away from Flash but there is nothing out there to move to yet. Google and Microsoft want to catch up to Apple, They need every thing they can find to beat Apple over the head with and Apple give them the bigest club yet to do it with by fighting Flash.

 

[Kodan]

To be perfectly honest, I don't see what is so great about Flash. When using my iPhone, I rarely find a time in Safari where I need Flash. There is the occasional webpage that is built entirely on it, but I rarely visit those.

As for the amount of content, YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many others are all available on the iPad. How much content are you really missing?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/01/h-264-66-percent-web-video/

 

[KOM.Nausicaa]

Anytime you artiificially limit the scope of your business model merely to retain ironclad power and control, you set yourself up for encroachment into your market. Jobs did this once and almost did not survive. In fact, a little reported fact is that Job's supposed rival, Microsoft's Bill Gates, bailed Apple out with a vital cash infusion.

The industry was shocked! Why would Gates bail out his primary rival?

Gates said it was because Microsoft needed the competition to retain its own competitive advantage! Truer words could not be spoken! It again pointed out that for all the negative press he received, Bill Gates was truly a visionary who understood that you cannot control the entire market. Yeah, sure, Microsoft ended up dominating the market, but did so through acquisitions and savvy policies. Microsoft has an open architecture. Apple O/S has been a closed architecture.

Now that Jobs again had a chance to open up the market with the iPhone, he chose instead to retain ironclad control. Now the Android series threatens the iPhone and iPad's once dominant market share.

Let the strength of your product determine your destiny, not the strength of your marketing strategy!

Ken

Steve Jobs is a genius in his own right -- he had some visionary ideas. But visionaries are sometimes very very wrong....we will see.

 

[tigisfat]

Apple has been getting along just fine without it. I suspect not supporting flash won't have much of an impact on apple's sales.