Archive for February 18th, 2008

Flash on the iPhoneThis article makes some good points about why the iPhone’s mobile Safari (WebKit) implementation will never support Flash.

I had always thought Flash’s omission was just a hardware limitation, issue, etc, but this article really points out that there’s a lot more to that limiting iPhone Flash support. Apple site itself has been devoid of any Flash technology since before the iPhone’s release.

Apple does really only want to support its own proprietary technologies whenever possible for starters, and on top of that it makes total sense that Apple would resent Flash over its own Quicktime and would not want to give Adobe an in on the mobile platforms that Apple itself has really advanced with the iPhone.

Flash on iPhone Political Calculus

Interesting, albeit long and slightly humorous in-depth look at how the unnamed alter ego (or would it just be ego) of Tyler Durden in “Fight Club” is actually an all grown up Calvin of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes.

Fight Club – The Return of Hobbes