Reply #8: Newsweek addresses that in this article: [View All]

Posted Thursday, April 08, 2010 3:49 PM

How Important Are Apple's Updates to the iPhone and iPad? Very.

Daniel Lyons

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/techtonicshifts/archive/2010/04/08/apple-s-modus-operandi.aspx

In other news: Apple still has no intention to support Adobe Flash. No explanation why. Perhaps none is needed, because think about it: when Apple blocks Flash-based sites like Hulu, users get “incentivized” (as Tony Soprano might say) to buy content instead from Apple’s iTunes store. You got a problem with that?

Another reason for Apple to hate Flash is that Flash lets developers build games and other apps that run in a browser. Therefore those developers could sidestep the App Store, which would deprive Apple of the chance to take 30 percent of the money people spend buying the app itself and then 40 percent of any advertising revenue that gets generated when people are using the app.

See, Apple is all about keeping things simple. And it is much more simple if Apple controls everything and makes all the money.

I’m a huge fan of Apple products. I have a house full of them, including a brand-new iPad. But more and more, this company scares me.