rmischook

Hey you might want to check this out: http://www.bashflash.com/ and this article on HTML5 to deliver your music http://www.macstories.net/reviews/bitspace/. Will you take the bait now ;-).

And I thought you would take the bait!

Yes but do you really want people who are IE user's as customers? I say NO From now on I am designing all of my sites to serve pages up to IPads-only. So there....

This is worth checking out: HTML5 at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Nor did IE4 doing its' own thing' date=' hurt MS ... but it hurt us developers. Stefan[/quote'] Let's not forget the customers/clients. In the end they are the one that pays for all this. I think there may be a slight difference here in that supporting different video formats is (I think) easier than supporting browser quirks. On the web front it means providing access to different versions of the video file (flash, quicktime, etc...). On the content production front it means taking the extra time to spit those files out from your video editing software or converting files. I admit it's extra work but I think it's worth it when the pay-off is a competitive eco-system for video formats and preventing another monopoly situation a la MS Wndows or Apple iTunes.

I think the main point of the article is that Apple does what is good for Apple and what Apple thinks will be good for its customers. Flash even on the Mac sucks - as he pointed out it spikes the CPU and gets my fans going - and I really hate that. Anyway I think that Apple providing a little competition to Adobe in that space is a good thing. At the end of the day folks will decide for themselves if they can live with a Flash-free iPhone or iPad. As the author of the article points out - it doesn't seem to have hurt apple so far.