intertwingly

Bruce Tognazzini: He did the same thing with the original Mac, although then, Flash was not the issue. Few will remember, but, when the Mac debuted in 1984, there were no arrow keys on the keyboard. That was a big deal.

Meanwhile, Opera Mini has been approved for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store even though it doesn’t look like an iPhone application at all.  I guess the messages is that you can look like whatever you like, as long you do your rendering in the cloud?

Meanhwhile, Google is collaborating with Adobe to improve the Flash Player experience in Google Chrome while simultaneously working to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video.  It also is phasing out support for offline access to Google Docs through Gears and promising a solution based on the HTML 5 Web SQL Database spec[citation needed] which will never be shipped in IE or Firefox.

Since I don’t know what to make of this, I’ll close with Kevin Lynch’s and Tim Bray’s take.