Listening to everyone talk about Flash on the iPad/iPhone/iPod has made one thing very clear to me. Nobody knows what they are talking about. Flash is horrible. It’s the most horrible thing to ever happen to computers and computing. It breaks the web. It destroys what the web was initially designed for; Easily accessible information.

But that’s not why Apple doesn’t support it. The truth is that Flash is a terrible software hack that overworks processors because it was written by people who were trying to accomplish something that shouldn’t happen: application-like behavior in the browser.

They designed a new chip, the A4. It’s fast. It won’t be running flash. Nothing they designed would. That’s how much Flash sucks ass. Only the people who know what Flash does at the processor level understand how big of a piece of shit it is.

ANYTHING is better than Flash. Except Silverlight. Oh, and whatever HTML5 turns out to be. It’s possible that some really smart mathematicians already invented something called video codecs that play a million times better, but whatever. Keep bitching about a proprietary format that ignorant web developers have been foisting on the public for years.

I hate Flash. I hate it so much. I have turned down countless jobs because they list Flash as a knowledge requirement. I know how Flash works. I have done everything you can do with Flash, and it’s just so fucking retarded it’s not funny anymore.

Everyone is trying to make software that makes it easier for people who don’t have a fucking clue, to do hard complicated stuff on the computer. This is wrong and bad. At a certain point we need to stop these lemmings from starting to run toward the bright shiny ocean of death. Education. Real software runs on the OS, or despite it. Hand-holding, helmet-adjusting, drool-wiping software runs in a browser. By adding the layer of a browser, I will ALWAYS be able to crap all over your speed, development and otherwise, on any computer.

FLASH IS THE DEVIL. The Deveeeeeeeel. Satan. Kill it. Kill it with a stake through the heart. Die. Die, you piece of shit software. Just die.