"Flash was created during the PC era - for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple's mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content." - Steve Jobs
Like many of the other new technologies we've looked at already, in the open source HTML5 standard, the new audio
and video
elements are more mature and usable than ever before. That's a good thing, because users' expectations for multimedia are much higher than ever before. Back in the day we used 300-baud modems that took 10 minutes to download one photo. Later, we used Napster to illegally download MP3 audio
files. Now, we stream television and pornography on our mobile devices. Since the bandwidth pipe has...