http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Read this today and thought I'd share.

Ignoring an old but prevalent technology apparently can drive innovation. We'll see. =)

As a flash designer/developer, I don't buy all the thoughts from Steve Jobs, recently one of my client asked for a keynote presentation witch I never used before, but at the end I managed to come up with something similar to ipad presentation ( without some of his sexy effects hehe) the keynote never be like a flash and flash is more advanced and if the apple starts something it will be stay like silverlight....

If you're comparing Flash/Silverlight with keynote you're comparing apples and oranges - If you want to compare Keynote with something compare it with Powerpoint and there is no comparison.

Silverlight is a vastly superior technology to Flash ... the problem is you need Java developers and how many designers do you know that are Java developers, or visa versa?

I think Jobs is betting on html5 - on that we'll see ... but there's not much of a future in betting against him until his ego get the best of him again :)

Also, from an SEO perspective websites designed in Flash are useless.

Sorry for the rant :)

Jobs = Gates

Flash has SEO depth if you understand xml (I'm a bit wobbly), all the main spiders will read them now.

Unfortunately apple is doing exactly what microsoft did and trying to monopolies the market... my guess/hope is a third contender enters the market on a unix platform that blows mac n win away =)

Maybe in a couple decades there will be a powerful enough google android phone that can run design apps while docked to a charging station like a workstation with fiber optic data storage.

Flash won't die until IE supports HTML 5 - if it dies then - IE only supports roughly 20-30% of HTML 5 - its going to be awhile before flash truly dies. Its evolved so much since simple animation already I think it will find its place - it will just be different. I use it now to create interactive maps and such that are tied to my CMS that allow for easy updating while being cool at the same time :).

HTML 5 has some really cool stuff.

Its a shame MSIE blows so hard in regards to standards compliance.. even regular spacing, IE is always messed up and additional *ie fixes* have to be added to scripts and css files.

If only IE was the one that was on its way out!!!

Oh give them some credit - IE8 doesn't require hacks.....most of the time :)