Apple HTML5 showcase
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apple's demo's and timing make perfect sense. they've gone and stirred up a storm and created a fierce rivalry between these two technologies, as well as a LOT of hype, and now, in order to keep the momentum going they have to meet everyone's already quite high expectations.
at this point it's literally a matter of them being the first to provide full-on html5 support. otherwise, they'd be called out on it, and boy would thier faces be red!
the only problem i see is while there is certainly a lot of excitement around html5, there's still not a lot of it used in mainstream - which is not surprising. it would be a bold, and probably idiotic move to adopt a technology that's not yet supported on every, or at least most browsers.
what's so funny about this is everyone's perspective. steve jobs essentially presented this as an either/or and it seems like nobody can see it any other way. it's like somone starts claiming that trucks are dated and cars are the future, and then everyone exhausts themselves debating which is a better option, and that one must go away!
i'm beginning to sound like a broken record on this topic, but there's no reason the two technologies cannot co-exist and compliment one another. they each have their strengths and over time, one will prove itself better in one area than the other, but it is VERY unlikely that one will ever supplant the other.