Those of you who know me well will know that I’m a Windows person through and through, however I’m not against Apple in any shape or form in fact I finally took the plunge recently and got an iPhone. However due to one of the most idiotic decisions that I’ve seen in a long time I feel I have to voice my opinion on this matter for the sake of the web if anything. Recently Apple have stated that Adobe’s Flash format is somwhat of a ‘closed format’ and is unsuitable for the web to move forward technically.

So much so that they say that Apples own media formats are better than Adobes Flash format. What do I say to this? – Bollocks… It’s been well established for a long time now that Flash is an immensly powerful tool for animation, video and interactive media as a whole. Without Flash we wouldn’t have those kick ass Newgrounds animations, YouTube wouldn’t be what it is today and the web would be a very different place. And by different I mean boring to the point it makes your eyes BLEED.

My problem and many other web developers is that Apple will not include Flash on iPhone or iPod formats and no doubt other formats in the future because they think they’re better, these mobile formats are the future and they need to be as open as possible. Well they’ve overstepped the mark in this case. Adobes response has been to place lots of advertising in big publications both on and offline saying we (heart) Apple, what they really mean is we hate apple as a tongue in cheek type joke.

If a company goes to the extent to advertise they hate another major company you know someones talking bullshit, and right now it’s firmly coming from Apple. So the next time you open iTunes or use your iPod/iPhone and think twice about the assholes who are trying to make the web a more boring and uncreative place. See what BBC News have to say on  the matter for more info.