Betting on the web

Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the "war" between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that provide best-of-breed experiences on lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the web:

It boils down to control. I've written several times that I believe Apple controls the entire source code to iPhone OS. (No one has disputed that.) There's no bug Apple can't try to fix on their own. No performance problem...