With HTML5, I can choose from any number of tools to work with Caine cost money, some are free. If one tool developer neglects a platform (Adobe, Carbon, Mac, *cough*), then I can go elsewhere.

Of course, all of this information is posted on the Adobe web site.

Thanks for the anonymous post though.

Obscure projects like Gnash exist, but try asking Adobe if those projects are legal in their view

But once you do the Math and if you realize that Math has to favor Apple then it becomes easier to understand why this HTML5 argument is being used in place of the real reason: Profits.

After looking into what it takes to develop apps for both devices, I realized one should have the latest Mac Hardware and O/S. That is sale number one that can run $600 to $1000.00 with an unknown amount of gross profit for Apple. The second component for a developer is buying one or both of the output devices. That can mean an additional $700-$1200 In revenue not to mention monthly connections costs.

Then there is the $99 fee to Apple if one develops for the App store or an even higher fee if one is developing for the enterprise.

While there are some ways to develop on the PC one still has to buy JavaScript foundations, the target devices and ultimately a VM with the latest Mac OS or a Mac PC to run it. Once all that is in hand in whatever variation one can afford, then there is small matter of the learning curve on the Mac OS for PC users and a the lower Level programming language of C Objective. This is not like learning action script, Ajax, or Java script and say ColdFusion or PHP for calls to a server to connect to a database.

This is the language the Mac OSX apps are developed as I understand it. That means books , time ( what’s more expensive than time?) and the hope that sufficient skills can be developed to write an application that rises somewhat about the level of iFart.

Although there is no evidence of it now, does anyone believe for a second that Apple isn’t looking at and/or developing a software application similar to Microsoft’s expensive Visual Studio to enhance the profits? This is where the real money lies outside of the huge profits the devices themselves are already generating. That takes out Flash Professional and some of the lighter development tools for Flash and hands the hardware and the software profits to Apple for every developer who has been off shored or had their prices driven into the mud, to spend a huge amount of upfront money when lower level programming skills may be beyond them.

That’s what I saw. This has absolutely nothing to do with HTML 5 in my opinion, and everything to do with Apple closing the development circle with its own set of software tools that can be sold with the Mac PCs and the target devices along with training, books, and some commission off the monthly connection fees

I would venture to guess that much discussed Halo effect of iPhone and related products owes quite a bit to Developers having to buy Apple Hardware to develop apps for Apple Hardware.

No software developer can ignore the rising user base of Apple’s consumer products or the potential for enterprise use. Someone once said that Steve Jobs is more of a monopolist than Bill Gates. Bill is a tough act to beat. But judging from the relative parity of each companies market cap, I’d say the stakes are getting very high for Apple to continue to produce earnings growth that justifies their lofty valuation. To double the stock from here means going to a half a billion dollar market cap. That is reminiscent of Microsoft and Cisco in the days of dotcoms.

HTML 5 has absolutely nothing to do with it while making money now has everything to do with it. Letting Adobe in the door is the last thing Apple wants right now. Not because of some “security issues” , but because of the profits that can be had now, not in 2012 or 2018. No public company can afford to think in those time frames not with Wall Street watching every move Apple makes to see if there is some hole in its armor or Steve Job’s. That’s what you get when you hit the top. He is looking at best 6 months from now. Let’s see what new software gets released between now and then. That should be a good “tell” on whether HTML 5 has anything whatsoever to do about Apple’s decision making process. Give this 6 months to play out.

These are the things our clients want, which is why plug-ins exists and HTML5 is being developed. As far as I know, HTML5 does not plan to be a replacement for PDF (anyone read the spec?).

There are documents on the web and we want to read them. Thus we have to use it.

My point in this post wasn’t that HTML5 is not warranted or even useful, but that it is no more risk averse than any other technology. And since HTML5 is still not complete, despite what Steve Jobs says, I would put money on it that the browser manufacturers end up creating their own versions of HTML5 thus perpetuating the cross browser saga.