The fact that the alternative to Flash was an open standard was a convenient convergence of interests. Jobs disliked Flash and wanted to hasten obsoleting it.
I have no inside information, but from reading the proverbial tea leaves and following his career, I think Sundar Pichai might have a similar prerogative and management style with respect to shedding things that are "un-Googley" Particularly things that run locally & sync with their services, e.g. Google Gears, Goolge Desktop, now CalDAV, etc.
I have no inside information, but from reading the proverbial tea leaves and following his career, I think Sundar Pichai might have a similar prerogative and management style with respect to shedding things that are "un-Googley" Particularly things that run locally & sync with their services, e.g. Google Gears, Goolge Desktop, now CalDAV, etc.