Apple has a record of embracing new technologies with promise. Flash is so yesterday's news. iPhone sales are cert

Apple has a record of embracing new technologies with promise. Flash is so yesterday's news. iPhone sales are certainly not flopping because it rejected Flash for HTML5.

It's rather rich for Adobe to pooh pooh "proprietary devices" (read Apple) for spurning Flash, which is Adobe's proprietary product ("standard capability").

A dozen years ago, the PC crowd was bemoaning the iMac and eMac for dropping 1.44mb diskette drives. The times and technologies move on. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Who's going to snap up those cheap labor H-1B visas when Flash gets put out to pasture?

Who's going to sign the petition to bring back WordStar,VisiCalc, dBase II, and Zenith DOS? Oh, for the days of the diminutive CRTs of the Osbourne I...

Adobe: "What have you done for us lately?"

One of the proud "few percenters" (since 1985),

Charlie