Return of the Blue Lego

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55 pointsyumraj3 comments

Sad commentary on the ongoing Holy War mentality of many programmers that the author felt the need to add the edit:

>This post was not a Flash pro/con, or Flash vs HTML5 statement.

Considering this was produced by a flash development shop, I find that statement to be disingenuous. Of course they are pro flash.

And if flash developers actually provided useful content for people who didn't have flash -- they usually leave it blank or say "get flash" -- then they wouldn't need to rely on browser manufacturers to display a broken plug-in icon.

If nothing else this whole Apple-vs-Flash mess illustrates just HOW much power Apple has at this point due to their closed platform.

It's no wonder that MSFT got hammered so badly by anti-trust - Apple has their own mini-monopoly in full bloom by owning the browser, and core applications on their platform.

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