Thread: Has anyone actually tried the iPad?
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2010-04-09 , 17:57
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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
I wonder what's the marketshares are like, html5 vs flash capability?
What about the cost and effort to generate and distribute flash vs html5 content?

Those should be the driving factors to keep an eye on...
Dunno the exact market share but Flash is still leading by much. The real situation we have by now is iPhone with HTML5 only, N900 and Android with HTML5 + Flash and WM6.5, WM7 with Flash only (the IE7.5 browser they intend to ship with WM7 is laughable, but MS will probably gain market share fast despite that). On the desktop the situation is similar and is not going to change for an year at least until IE9 ships. This results in duplicated web efforts for all that want to support these platforms and the situation is not going to change too soon (Apple efforts to support HTML5 are admirable but the further closure of the platform and the integrated advertisements system are not going to help market share gains (especially out of NA market)).
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