Robert X. Cringely write very good article on FLASH and PDF today’s stand.

Some of the very good statements he has write.

• Being the owner of two invisible technologies [PDF and Flash] makes Adobe more powerful than most of us can even imagine.
• Adobe absolutely dominates nearly every market for graphical software and is a strong competitor in video, too.
• Adobe is moving into developer tools in a big way to support its grab for mindshare in the interactive/rich web application space where much of the excitement lately seems to be.
• My money is on Adobe simply because of those two invisible weapons, PDF and Flash.
• But invisibility offers no advantage to those who can’t follow through. That’s not Adobe, by which I mean that’s not Flash, which has grown to be so much more than it was ever intended to be.
• By itself, Flash has had an amazing evolution.
• Java applets were fantastic with major shortcomings (huge Java runtime, poor performance, clunky and ugly interface, etc). Flash fixed all or most of those.
• Expect Flash in everything and perhaps even Flash in a chip. Deploying software in hardware is the ultimate DRM.
• And Flash does cross-platform so much better than Java ever did.
• Flash potentially solves all those problems AND creates new opportunities.