It's hardly comprehensive reporting to imply that Apple's only reason for not including Flash is that it's a resource hog and battery drain. You missed out the 2 most important reasons:

1) If Apple include Flash, the iPhone OS will then become dependent on Adobe's update schedule. Can you imaging wanting to release iPhone OS 5 and having to wait 6 months for Adobe?

2) HTML5! There's no need for plugins!

If you don't want to buy an iPhone / iPad then don't buy one! I wish everyone would stop whining about it!

Flamer: MJAD1965 is exactly the stupid rabid fanboi I was talking about. I really have to thank him for proving my point, and for calling me "a worthless turd salad ingredient" - that just proves that these fanbois have at least elegance, if not eloquence. Much like all of apple's products, some style with no substance whatsoever.

Disclaimer: I own no apple or Microsoft gear (except for a Microsoft keyboard I got as a present), and I do not use either companies' software on my computers and phones. MJAD1965 doesn't know of anything else though, so let's keep him guessing ;)

"Beauty is nothing without the brains"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHX2mvFVQMs

bigger_luddite: I haven't seen/heard Stewart blasting Viacom for pulling Daily Show clips off of YouTube (protecting IP). Until then, he has absolutely no business blasting another company for protecting *their* IP.

p1RAT3: Yes, Apple users, or fans, as a moron like you would put it, are stupid. Well, at least when they're not at Apple v. MS games voicing their fandom. Fanboi. Great word, if misspelled, coming from a worthless turd salad ingredient. Just get over it. People like using their Apple products and that pisses you off, because you're a weak-minded person who just can't stand to see other people happy. Apple users haven't fallen in line with the MS-rules-the-world crap, and they're fanboys. Snap out of it you joker. You give clowns a bad name. Now go back to lighting your farts on fire in your mom's basement.

Apple has a monopoly. It has a few apparently. They have a monopoly on osx, iphone os, and a base of stupidest rabid fanbois.

You're talking about 2 separate issues here.
1. Apple banning flash on the iPhone/iPad
2. Apple banning the use of 3rd-party IDEs for developing Apps.

I believe the anti-trust case is being brought because of the 2nd issue, so why mention anything about the 1st

doesn't make any sense to me. apple doesn't have monopoly at first. at second it's their product, their os and their tools. if they want to guarantee certain level of quality and so on i don't see any problem with it. i'd call this a BS.

do they want to investigate wii/ps3/whatever_insert_here

Apple deserve this. Only there Hardware to run there OS yet you can run other OS's on there hardware should be next.

BAH! Not in any degree comparable to 1981 when IBM so feared prosecution that it gave M$ (and Digital Research) a chance to write an OS for its new open-architecture PC, or when The Phone Company was broken up in 1983.

But maybe the tide *has* changed for Apple. Jon Stewart on the Daily Show 4-28 showed his Mac Air, Ipad, and Iphone, then BLASTED Apple for setting the police on Gizmodo.

By the way, Steve Jobs now looks a whole lot like the "Goldstein" in Apple's "1984" video...

if a manufacturer is in a monopoly position. At best Apple is 3rd in the smartphone marketplace, therefore no anti-trust hearing.

Nick is just echoing (does he ever do anything else?) a single report from the New York Post that hasn't been confirmed. Nothing but the usual FUD.

I think any business with the profit levels that Apple and Microsoft regularly record should automatically be the subject of investigation. Microsoft posted profits approaching 30% last quarter, Apple's were 23%. A plague on both their houses!

Excellent news. I've long thought that Apple's draconian policies and limitations regarding iPhone apps violated anti-trust laws. An investigation like this which hopefully results in Apple being forced to be more open, fair and lenient with their approval process can only be good for consumers.