You may have read that Apple is selling all it’s new computers without Adobe’s Flash. There was a time when it was a big deal that Flash was inluded on a mac but times change. It’s easy to see how some will interpret this as mean spirited and an attack on Adobe.
I think Apple’s motives are different.
Adobe has made a talking point that Apple is closing off the web and keeping out an integral part of the web experience, Flash, they argue is an integral part of the open web.
And what Apple is now telling customers is that we give you the tools to navigate the open web and if you, our customers, want to add private company’s plugins be our guest. On Mac OS.
So this change in Apple’s policy is really designed to make it clear to people that Flash is a product and not a protocol.
