If It Weren’t for Apple, Hybrid App Development Would Be the Winner Over Native
AS3/Flash was an amazing language + ide.  It included a simple syntax, layers, a great system of events and callbacks, animations built in, timelines, vector graphics, etc. I and other AS3 devs (2011) could write code x10 faster than anyone in obj-c.  The concept of AS3/swfs running on an iOS store could mean the end of control of the apple app store and the break down of the obj-c community.<p>Apple completely fucked over AS3/Flash. Adobe launched multiple attempts to work with apple to build out a system to launch swf files on a iOS device.  Apple could have helped.  Adobe should have played hardball and yanked photoshop [+studios] from the osX.