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What Will It Take for Microsoft and Adobe to Agree on an HD Web Video Standard?

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That's what is predominantly in use today.

What's the issue?

Flash Player: Apple's Blind Spot?

In the early days of iPhone/iPod Touch I would have agreed with you.

Since then, I do not have Flash issues for what I have learned to use the devices for at all and web pages are rarely left with vacant Flash place holders.

The early issue on incorporation of Flash in addition to security is that it is a resource hog in terms of processing cycles, memory and bandwidth. The current solution for mobile, Flash Lite, is a very poor experience on any high resolution mobile device screen. If you can look at resource use on your Desktop or Laptop, try running Flash web pages and you will see the issue.

Flash as we know it is not suitable for these devices. Devices will stall, batteries will expire and the ubiquitous use will saturate carriers networks.

You Tube works perfectly well on the iPhone. Browser based BBC iPlayer in the UK works perfectly well over Wi-Fi and iPod Movies are superb.

Adoption of in progress web standards will allow for the incorporation and playing of video of various formats within a web page more easily. The SDK provided by Apple is also much more suitable for resident multi media applications.

I suggest to you that the non Flash use gripes about the iPhone are, well, just gripes. Apple is absolutely right to hold out on this unless a workable, in all respects, solution can be hammered out. Already, through the extent of mobile web use, Apple is the standard if any and it is doing this largely through using web standards. Flash is not a standard even if its use is ubiquitous on PC platforms.