Adobe Flash.
iBook Author got a lot of fan fair last week with many trial software runs.Ye Editor happened to witness one – 5 things stood out about iBook Author:
1)It is simple and fairly easy to use given this simplicity;
2)It can turn out large iBooks but they are huge files about 1.3 GB for a 1oo page 10 large “animated” illustrations;
3)it can be slowwww at times in design and creation;
4)it does not have advanced and compelling animation features familiar to Erain Swift3D [Mac, Win] , Toon Boom Animate [Mac, Win], SwishMax [Win], Anime Studio [Mac, Win], as well as Flash CS5.5 [Mac, Win] developers;
5)As usual of late from Apple, it is highly proprietary and turns out proprietary iBook files.
Again, for animation Apple Quicktime is found wanting and iBook is no exception. HTML5 is not a viable solution and in fact Apple simply does not have a replacement for Flash for its millions of designers. Yet Apple’s case against Flash is highly suspect. iBook Author just underlines the case of deficient products being provided to loyal Mac graphic designers and developers when many products much better are available.