In response to , which derided Apple for not being more open with its approach to the App Store, on Wednesday:

Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary.

Ever since the launch of the iPhone, . Apple has repeatedly preferred other technologies for a variety of reasons, including performance and supporting open standards over proprietary ones such as Flash.

Even Steve Jobs has on several occasions. Developer Greg Slepak e-mailed the CEO to complain about Apple's insistence on from the App Store and : "We've been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform."

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