Apple is now building HTML5 to against Adobe, especially on its
Flash. which it charged reasonable prices and built cross platform
products and the people rejoiced and Adobe’s death was spared and
it lived comfortably for many days next to Apple.
What are the reasons behind the
confrontation?
Generally, this confrontation is about Apple and Google, not even
Apple vs Adobe. Google is the owner of Adobe, and the two are very
antagonists. On one hand, Apple wants to dominate the multimedia
world by offering protective and restricted products. On the other
hand, Google is in favor of multi-platform and open
standards.
When knowing this, it is easy to see where Apple's grudge is coming
from: Google/Adobe is threatening Apple's multimedia domination by
offering a free platform, on which anyone can develop and freely
share content.
I'm not meaning that Google/Adobe is without fault: They stabbed
Apple in the back when they started their own product line
(including Android), but they are now paying a very high price for
that.
What is the advantage of HTML5 over flash?
There is no obvious answer at present. As far as I know, HTML 5 is
slower than flash for load time but it seems to be a faster
streaming speed than flash.
I guess for those who have an IPAD currently HTML5 is great due to
the lack of flash support. HTML5 will be a competitior to the flash
market but i dont think it will be as good untill full deployment
happens.
The main advantages of flash. It seems to be slightly less CPU
usage but less is still good. I would say that they are good at
what they do.I can't see an overall winner as HTML5 hasn’t been
around long enough.