iPhone Outrage takes effect

You have to admire Steve Jobs, who after taking a tough and defiant stand in the Industry, has the courage to reverse his stand and open up iPhone platform to Flash development. Its not easy for a CEO to back down and hats off to Steve for being human and taking back his role as an outstanding leader. see CRN

Steve is a very thoughtful person and he is an inspiration - If you have never seen his speech to Graduates at Stanford University take a look at it now. You will see a depth and spirit that transcend mistakes and finds the right path to make a difference.

But to be fair we all must take some credit for changing the picture. On our first Hubs we took issue with iPhones closed approach - Jobs not done well and saw later how Android took full advantage of the mistake (is Droid the new iPhone).

In the SmartPhone Shootout between iPhone, DroidX and BlackBerryTourch, the DroidX wins over iPhone by a Flash. Now that iPhone has opened up to Flash i suspect the DroidX will not have that edge. The iPhone is way ahead in the area of display and no one is close to its - Retina Display - yet!

The fact is that consumers did take action while developers, technology geeks and journalist wrote that it was a tragedy for consumers. The news channels were full of advise for Apple. Perhaps it all had an effect, but whatever it is, I am happy that Apple is taking a turn in the sand and not holding the wrong course.

The leopard can change its spots.

Adobe has now res-erected its Flash Packager for iPhones but was quick to point that Flash video may still not be available to view on Apple devices."We do want to point out that Apple's restriction of Flash content running in the browser on iOS remains in place," Adobe wrote.

The Freedom to Surf!

I hope that Apple and Adobe will find a solution so that consumers and developers will have a full and open market. The Internet has spoiled us in giving us free access to so much with a single interface. The Mobile Market has changed that and we are in danger of loosing something of great value - freedom to surf!

The fear is that Mobile devices will fragment the market as suppliers and hosting services carve out proprietary products and preferential access to protect their markets. Apple is still shutting out much of the market from its browser, this is not freedom to surf, and I am sure that consumers will not put up with it. They will not buy iPhones that don't give the freedom to surf.

Web surfing is the new frontier on Mobile Smartphones. Its covered in apps vs. web, their is more to be said (new article soon).