Everyone has seen at least one TV advertisement extolling the merits of the iPhone 3G. In these ads, Apple claims that you have the possibility to have all the Internet in your pocket. The UK Advertising Standards Authority has deemed this misleading and has prohibited further airings following complaints from two people. The main items of concern were the lack of Java and Flash, which are used on many sites.
Apple has presented a defence as surprising as these accusations. The company states that Safari for the iPhone uses all Open Source technologies, but Flash and Java are not among them. It's not up to them to ensure that proprietary technologies which require a separate download are compatible.
This defence might have worked if Apple did not included these technologies on the Mac by default and if they had not refused the two companies the right to create plug-ins for the iPho
