There was me, getting all excited about the new export to iPhone functionality in Flash CS5 and Apple add a clause to their API terms and conditions forbidding it.

I think this is a REALLY bad move on behalf of Apple. They are basically penalising developers like myself for using Flash to create things. I thought Apple were a creative company, but this latest move is anything but. It seems to me that they are beancounting, trying to stop people getting their content for free via the Flash player and walling iPhone and iPad users into their walled garden.

This is completely undemocratic in my opinion and smacks of corporate monopolism. I want to develop cool stuff for the iPhone/iPad, but don’t have the time to learn a new coding language in order to do it. I already know one of the most robust and powerful ones out there, ActionScript. Why, then, would I want to go and learn Ob C from scratch.

I thought Apple were an ethical company, committed to their loyal users. Apparently not, as they are willing to kick their developer-base in the teeth just to get at Adobe.

Childish and unreasonable. So go screw yourselves, Apple.

There have been some rumblings in recent months, that due to HTML5 and YouTube and Vimeo sliding back their reliance on the Flash player to deliver video content as well as mobile platforms such as iPhone and Palm not supporting it that 2010 may be the year that Flash dies.

We all know that Flash is a rotten processor hog. Particularly on OSX. The iPad and iPhone doesn’t look set to take it up any time soon because of this. This means that developers are going to have to think a lot harder about how they deliver content in future.

I’m of the opinion that yeah. Flash has had a good run. 10 years or monopoly on how to deliver rich-media experiences. But now browsers are growing up and supporting HTML5, the reasons I tend to use flash (Video and sound mainly) are becoming more and more obsolete. I am already making the tentative transition to AJAX for things like slide shows and the like, so for me (An avid Flash supporter) I think I will begin to roll back my usage of the Flash platform in the coming months and look for alternatives. This is not an invitation for boring web designers who don’t use Flash because basically they don’t know how to, to bang on and on about how they “told me so”…  I am just being pragmatic.

Now. We don’t know what Adobe has up it’s sleeve as yet. But I think they need to completely re-think the Flash plugin.  They will need to work out a deal with Apple, basically. Because as Apple take over and homogenise the computing experience, and more and more people take up this “safe” model their non-support for Flash on their most popular products could potentially destroy the hard work and innovation the Flash community has basically driven the development of ENTIRE INTERNET with over the last 10 years. (YouTube and MySpace would never have existed without the Flash platform, don’t forget)

I don’t really care how you personally feel about Flash. It’s a boring debate to be honest. I believe in the right tools for the right job… But to flush all this innovation down the toilet simply because one cultish company has a monopoly is a real shame.  Let’s not forget.  Designers love Flash, it makes their work look good. Designers also love Apple. So hopeully something will occur to put Flash back in the frame.

This looks interesting. It’s a fully integrated open source video platform which pretty much does everything you would ever need to deploy video on your websites. I have yet to fully explore it’s full functionality, but you can create playlists, upload any type of video, create video remixes and much more. What’s perhaps the best thing is that it is a developer community, so everything is easily customised if you are a developer. The free trial gives you 10gig of server space to upload videos, using their excellent backend. More than enough space for small to medium sized video based projects. You can also install this backend on your own server if you require. A really promising new open source project.

I’ll be looking into it further as time goes on and will get back to you on the results.

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I have recently been looking through quite a few of the videos on Adobe TV. Especially the new features of Flash CS5, which allows you to create iPhone apps directly from Flash. This will really open up the iPhone app development platform to non-lowlevel coders such as myself. I am really looking forward to the Beta later this year as something I have really been itching to do is to start developing for the iPhone. I have a load of cool music related ideas which I have been playing around with in Flash and just need the ability to transfer these to iPhone!!

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