Thread: Flash-enabled Phones

Originally Posted by Oglethorpe

100% right again.

This is like deja vu for Apple, and it harkens back to the time when Apple did the same thing with their computers. By only allowing in-house development on their hardware/software, they severely crippled themselves when they had to go up against Microsoft. The better business model always prevails. It's just a matter of time before Apple falls flat on their faces again.

Now... the iPhone's only glimmer of hope would come if they decided to adopt the html5 platform. Still, if that happens, it will happen to far in the future, and skeptics like me will have already jumped ship waiting for iPhone to deliver what other companies' phones already are.

Have you checked out their financials for the last year? Apple can afford to fall on their collective face several times before it is a problem.

I don't like the fact that they are dismissing flash so readily either, it smacks of some kind of ****ing contest and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that Jobs is behind it.

But...

Check out the EPS for the last 5 years:

AAPL: APPLE INC Earnings Releases

People are willing to throw money at this company for a reason: they have been delivering.

The next three years will be interesting to see.

-Rob

Of course Jobs is behind it. He's been sniveling and skulking ever since Microsoft crushed Apple in the 90's, and now that he has a foothold, he's going to control what his customers are exposed to. It kind of goes back to my "Lala" thread in here. Apple could easily give you something cool, but they won't for no good reason.