Steve Jobs on the 6 grudges Apple holds against Flash

[epicurean]

famousringo said:

epicurean said:
It also would cost Apple a lot of money if they allowed flash. Sites like hulu, abc, nbc, etc.., all use flash to let you watch recent episodes. You have to pay for those to get it on an ipad, iphone, etc.. via the apple store. I have a hard time believing this has more to do with iphones crashing than it does with the fact that they'll lose a ton of revenue if it was allowed.

ABC has a free streaming app for iPad already, and Hulu has an app in the works. I guess Apple accidentally forgot to crush it.

People think that iTunes is huge money for Apple... it really isn't. It's less than 10% of Apple's revenue, and that's divided between apps, music and video downloads. iTunes is marginally profitable, it's main purpose is to help sell high-margin hardware, which it seems to be doing rather well.

Good, didn't know about the ABC app. 

So far, I haven't bought an Ipad simply because I want to be able to get different sports packages (NBA, MLB, espn3.com, etc) and stream them to my TV.  Unfortunately it sounds like the Ipad won't let you do this, even if it can play it.  Both the NBA and MLB have ways to stream to the iphone/pad now, but I don't think it'll let you output it to a tv, even with the dock/adapaters (it restricts it ot certain apps/media).  Espn3 currently doesn't work on my iphone, so I doubt it does on the iPad as well.  If you have any more info on this, it would be greatly appreciated.  Right now I'm waiting for the HP Slate, as I know I can get anything on the web on it, as well as output anything on it (built in HDMI Out).