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In any case, the iPhone is Apple’s best shot at killing Flash, and Apple appears happy to be using it as such. The company just recently removed all remains of Flash from its corporate website, implementing everything that had been Flash-based using standards-based Ajax techniques instead.

Apple recently convinced Google to start offering its YouTube videos in an H.264 format that can be accessed by both the iPhone and Apple TV. The obvious reason for moving to H.264 video rather than using Flash is that Flash requires decoding the video on a general purpose CPU using the Flash/On2 software codec.

Excluding Flash is a huge slap in the face of Adobe, which is pushing Flash as the basis of its AIR and Flex web application strategies. Adobe likes to advertise that nearly every PC has a Flash plugin installed. Suddenly, nearly every mobile that has access to the real Internet won’t have Flash, making it far less attractive across the board

Via Roughly Drafted

(Via fscklog)

Today is the D-Day for the iPhone and one of the first gifted people to get hands on Apple’s iPhone was New York Times technology columnist David Pogue.

In his “Missing Manual” book series and with a perfect timing O’Reilly and Pogue Press release the iPhone: The Missing Manual which you can order now or even download today as a PDF file while you are waiting to get your very own iPhone.

As a sneak peak you can read David Pogue’s Favorite iPhone Tricks at the Missing Manual website.

I will be following the launch events of the iPhone today to get feedback if the iPhone is the floating car we imagined we’d be driving in the future.