I've been keeping a vague eye on the whole iP*/Flash thing, and the stuff to come of out Google's developer conference last week was quite interesting.

So, iThings (Pods, Phones, Pads, whatever) don't run Flash. Apple claims it's not a commercial decision, although to me that sounds unlikely. Apple has essentially locked out all the code it doesn't like, and no matter what they say about it the commercial benefit just looks too convincing.

Thing is though, look at what the other side are doing: Google's 'Game Advocate', summing up Google I/O recently introduced a host of exciting things. Not only are they working with Unity to support that on their platforms, which is exciting in itself (bearing in mind that Unity is one of the many things that won't run on Apple's mobile devices), but they're doing so as part of a standard to execute native code within a browser, which should open up all kinds of functionality with no need for browser plugins.

Then in other news Flash gaming portal Kongregate have a partnership with Adobe to bring Flash games to Android.

Can Apple really afford to keep such a tight hold on its precious app space, while all the people and companies they alienate team up against them?