There's a lot of kerfuffle about Steve Jobs recent screed on why Flash is bad and must be blocked from our iApples
I actually sorta kinda agree with Steve here.
Crap flash is definitely the thing most likely to hang the computer or crash a browser on Apple lines, and it is being superseded by better, hopefully more robust, standards.
The antipope hisself thinks this goes deeper...
seriously, check out Charlie Stross's take, after you read Steve Jobs.
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