To which Apple had this to say:
"Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary,"
I think the author was mostly saying that the Apple system is the closed environment, not stuff like flash (I mean, flash is closed, but the author was aiming at Apple).
It's the closed Apple environment that the author thinks will drive developers away. I think it
should, but I don't think it
will.