Six Reasons Why Flash Isn't Going Away 483
CWmike writes "While Steve Jobs is betting his mobile platform on it, predicting Flash's demise is short-sighted, say industry analysts. 'There are many people who despise Flash, but I'm not sure they'd love the alternative right out of the gate. The open-source world has not blown everyone out of the water with their video work thus far,' Michael Cote, an analyst at RedMon, told Howard Wen. 'Adobe has spent a lot of time optimizing Flash, and I'd wager it'd take some time to get HTML 5 video as awesome.' Here are six factors that give Flash a strong position over HTML 5 and other alternative Web media technologies in the foreseeable future. For starters, While Android has made Flash a wedge issue, Flash is just beginning to show up on multiple mobile device platforms, Wen writes. Ross Rubin, an analyst at NPD Group, reminds us how Flash ushered in video on Web pages, but Craig Barberich, vice president of marketing and business development at Coincident TV, highlights the pervasiveness of Flash on the Web as we know it: 'Everybody is talking about video, but what doesn't necessarily get talked about is a lot of the interactive elements.'"
Re:Browser as Gaming Platform (Score:2, Funny)
The problem here is....?
I know why (Score:5, Funny)
Flash is the savior of the universe. Sending it away would be ungrateful. Flash aaah aaah ahh.
Re:It's a bit like the proverbial fish story. (Score:2, Funny)
Expect the <b> <em> <b> <em> ... to be fixed later today.
Butthead: Heh, heh, you said BM heheheh ... heh heh BM
Beavis: Shut-up, Butthead!
Butthead: heheheh, yah!
Beavis: heh heh heh
Thank goodness iOS doesn't have that problem. (Score:4, Funny)
I heartily agree.
Sent from my jailbroken iPhone