Originally Posted by
elCheapoDeluxe
It has nothing to do with the technology of flash.
yes it does. flash is buggy and a cpu hog.
Apple merely wants to prevent the development of applications that could run as easily on Blackberry or Android as they do on an iPhone.
no different than what every other company does. microsoft requires silverlight for windows phone 7 development, and why they came up with c# and .net on windows.
Such inter-platform applications would seriously erode apple's app monopoly.
what monopoly is that? they're currently #3, behind nokia and rim, with about 16% of the market (idc data, 2010).