Jobs' solo Flashturbation lent unlikely second hand

Ah Nostalgia...

>With the arrival of Debbie Does Dallas

Such fond memories(mammaries ?)

Of course this guys eagerness to go HTML5 (as yet, not a complete standard) will bite him in the arse when His Jobsness implements a ban list on the latest iGodfone.

Formats, it's always formats.

So will the porno industry choose to go patent encumbered or follow Google to an open source codec?

It could prove t he deciding factor.

After all it was the porno crowd that choose VHS over Betamax and settled the tape wars, well once they'd finally given up their early dreams of video disks.

Difference in attitude

I don't think the p0rn industry are supporting St Jobs. They are coming from different points of view.

P0rn industry (and my view)

Flash is inefficient and as soon as something better comes along we will move to it as soon as possible. But until then we support using flash as there is not a good alternative.

Apple

We have decided we don't like flash, whether for technical reasons or because we have an alternative we want to push (but have not released yet). So we pretend it does not exist (fingers in ears singing la la la). And decide that that you users do not need to use it even though the majority of video content on line uses it. So until an alternative comes along we like (or we release something) you are screwed.

This difference has skewed this whole Apple vs Flash discussion. Is flash the best way of doing video or on-line? No. In the same way Windows may not be the best OS. Should we be looking to get alternatives on the market? Yes. But flash is here now and like Windows, until there is a more used alternative you need to support it. The P0rn industry knows this and supports it.

Apple, well Apple are the artists of the computer industry and as such sometimes they may cut their own ears off....

Second use

"The second application of ANY new technology is the distribution of pornography"

we'll see

Flash has it's downsides, no argument there, i'm just curious to see on what shores this html5 hype wave will break.

Hopefully it won't be on the rocks off the coast of fail.