To many of Flash/Flex programmers, it could be a bad news that Steve Job openly banned Flash on his devices like iPad. His message clearly stated that HTML5 can be used to replace the rich experience of Flash and it will be our future. He may be right about the cons of Flash. Nothing is perfect. However, I am surprised that he took a step further to ban Flash totally. Why couldn't he simply provide an option for users to turn it off if they want? I really doubt about his intent. Whenever I see something like that, it only reminds me what Microsoft did in the old days.
In fact, from his TOS, it stated clearly that the most important reason for Apple to ban Flash is because Apple doesn't want a third party layer of software come between the platform and the developer.
Allowing Flash — which is a development platform of its own — would just be too dangerous for Apple, a company that enjoys exerting total dominance over its hardware and the software that runs on it. Flash has evolved from being a mere animation player into a multimedia platform capable of running applications of its own. That means Flash would open a new door for application developers to get their software onto the iPhone: Just code them in Flash and put them on a web page. In so doing, Flash would divert business from the App Store, as well as enable publishers to distribute music, videos and movies that could compete with the iTunes Store – Brian on wired.com
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