Apple has been after Adobe Flash since the launch of the iPhone and now with the iPad, Apple plans to completely destroy it to make room for it's home baked alternative called Gianduia.
Named after Italian hazelnut chocolate, Gianduia will rival Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight.
Apple introduced Gianduia last summer at WOWODC (World of WebObjects Developer Conference), an independent event scheduled near the company's own WWDC event in June. It is likely that more information will surface at this year's WOWODC and WWDC events. Gianduia, named after an Italian hazelnut chocolate, is "essentially is browser-side Cocoa (including CoreData) + WebObjects, written in JavaScript by non-js-haters.
Giandui will be able to provide a platform for developers to create Rich Internet Applications such as MobileMe that has been created by Apple using SproutCore Javascript Framework. Currently! Apple Retail has actually already been using Gianduia to create web app clients.
However with the advent of HTML5, the question is whether such new platforms are even needed anymore?
[via AppleInsider]