Steve Jobs wants Flash gone. He has made that very clear.

His anti-flash campaign kicked off with the release of the iPhone and continues to grow with the release of the iPad. His ‘thoughts’ are plastered all over the Apple website. In short, his open letter states that HTML5 should completely replace Flash and that Flash is not on the device for the following reasons:

1. Flash is proprietary.
2. Most video content is available on the iPhone and there is no need for Flash games as iPhone users can download apps.
3. Poor reliability, security and performance.
4. Poor battery life when playing video.
5. Flash content needs to be rewritten for touch devices.
6. Steve Jobs does not want any middle layer software involved in the app development cycle. His sixth point is directed at the iPhone compiler in Flash. Flash CS5 shipped with the ability to export Flash code to native ARM code on the iPhone.

Certainly if we are to just believe what Job’s preaches then Flash really is a poor product, but let’s have a look at his points. Read more