Ok, so I was reading this “Flash killing” news from this post at roughlydrafted and while he said some kind of silly things, one thing he said that I agree with is this:
“…RIAs haven’t really taken on the world by storm.
Instead, Flash, Silverlight and other proprietary tools and their required runtime plugins are all still aiming at some future date when they can claim the status of being the platform monopoly in RIA development. (EDIT this line is just silly, and not what I was interested in this quote :) However, many of the most popular rich web apps today are from Google, including Maps, Reader, Docs, and Sheets. Google’s rich web apps take on Microsoft Office desktop apps without needing Flash, Silverlight, or Java.”
which I’ll give him, is a fair point, and something I’ve said before as well. Food for thought. Anyways, even though I tease it here, I might even use sproutcore on something, I like Merb, and the ORM in it seems nice. And, of course, if you want to make iPhone apps, well then, one knows what they need to do.