The reason Steve Jobs, why the iPhone and iPad not support Flash

Responding to criticism that spread in various media, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the reason of his company’s decision not to use Adobe Flash on iPhone mobile, iPod and iPad device. He thinks the lack of Flash support is not used, not as an attempt to protect the App store but rather the reason for the lack of technological support.

Jobs’ Apple outlines five reasons for refusing to use Flash:

1. Disclosure: Ownership Flash; web standards like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript open. “From the various definitions, Flash is a closed system,” wrote Jobs.
2. Myth ‘Full Web’: Jobs said a lot of available video content using H.264 format which is “more modern”, and not all run on Flash. “Users iPad iPod and iPhone, despite not losing a lot of videos does not support Flash.
3. Reliability, security and performance: Based on performance records, Flash has “one of the worst safety record in 2009,” according to Symantec. Flash “less work properly on mobile devices.”
4. Batteries: Flash spend almost double the battery usage. For example, the iPhone can play H.264 video up to 10 hours, while the video plays in Flash can only be less than five hours before the battery runs out.
5. Touch Format: Flash designed for the PC by using the mouse, not to touch screen / touch screen.

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“Flash is created in the era of the PC is for PC and use the mouse. Flash is a successful business for Adobe and we understand how their efforts to bring Flash out of the PC world. But the era of the mobile is a device with minimal resources, touch screen and use the mobile web, where these areas can not be supported by Flash. “