Competition always benefit the end-user
Straight from Arpit’s Blog, I agree with the idea of thinking about the usability and creativity despite of caring about any Technology. Although my thoughts always get inclined towards OpenSource options but still if a tech can deliver better than any available than we surely go for it. I repeat that our motto should be to use technology work for us do not work for a technology with blind eyes. It will never be beneficial for the technological world J.
As he said that there “has been a lot of new activity in the UI world: Apollo, Silverlight, JavaFX, WPF and now Ted Patrick’s sneak peeks on the new features of Flex 3, and a lot of people have very strong sentiments about it”. It looks like technology is driving us we aren’t driving it. In this way the end-user and their requirement will be lost or molded according to the technology offered.
Silverlight can be a technology sharing the same space as of Flash but it can not fade the rainbow colors of Flash apps. Today RIA is being driven on Flash platform and silverlight will be just a step of improvement in this era. If we keep OpenSource fundamental theories in mind we will realize that A competition or improvement always enhances the product. I am expecting lots of new changes in Flash platform for the betterment just because of the competition and no doubt will be always beneficial for the end-user. J
Lets be focused….