the looming battle for casual games will be based on programming language
This acquisition could change everything in that it could allow Zynga to more easily launch new games simultaneously on the iPhone and Facebook (and Zynga Live?).
Just as important, the looming battle for casual games will be based on programming language: Flash versus HTML 5. Right now, Flash is the online standard though hamstringed on mobile by Apple. What’s interesting is that both Apple and Google are both committed to making the entire Web (computer and mobile) move to HTML 5.0. Facebook has not weighed in, but based on all we know about Mark Zuckerberg, I would bet Facebook is going to take a lead in moving to HTML 5.0 as well.
Zynga is placing a small bet that HTML 5.0 will be a significant
however language for their games in the future across all platforms. They are being language agnostic. They have the flash wizards, now they have the HTML 5 experts in their arsenal.
