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I agree. This is a bummer.

True or not, my understanding is that Apple is actually pushing for support of web standards. I don't believe they would support any "black box" technology on the iPhone whether it be Flex, Silverlight, or Applets. If that is their reasoning behind shunning the use of such technologies on their iPhone, I applaud them.

If you mean Java Applets with Applet, then think again. It's not a "black box" technology. The specification of it is completely open and available to anymore to either read or implement. Next to that, the most widely used implementation of it (the Sun JRE) is open source too.

There are also a dozen other parties who have implemented said specification, both open source en closed source.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. By black box, I meant a web technology which runs within a "box" on your page. Code running within that box has difficulty seeing out (interacting with the rest of the page), and the other portions of our page have difficulty seeing in. For example, flash will run within some div tags but has limited if any access to other elements of the page and vice versa. And, although it's gotten better, these black box technologies are often not searchable (by Google, etc) and, as a result, difficult to index. I was not equating black box to proprietary.

We all have to wait June to see what could happen.

It might get more traffic but I dislike these sensationalist headlines. Apple isn't stabbing anyone. Has Scoble ever been stabbed? Perhaps he should gain some perspective.