Tim O'Reilly: At #w2e, Adobe CTO @kevinl... My take on the Flash controversy | GottaBeMobile. Some users are having a great experience, but others have run into a variety of iPhone SE 3 problems. We’ve heard about many of the issues plaguing Apple’s iPhone SE 3 and most of the issues are related to the iOS 16 and iOS 15 software that powers the phone. We haven’t heard about any serious widespread iPhone SE 3 issues, but that could change as more people buy the phone and as current owners put more milage on their devices.
In this guide we’ll take you through the most common iPhone SE 3 issues, potential fixes for these problems, places to find feedback about iPhone SE 3 performance, and a look at what’s in the iOS pipeline for the device. iPhone SE 3 Problems Unsurprisingly, we’ve seen complaints about iPhone SE 3 activation issues. This is a common issue and one that pops up every time Apple releases a new iPhone. If you’re having issues activating your new device, check Apple’s System Status page. iPhone SE 3 Performance How to Fix iPhone SE 3 Problems iOS Downgrade Status. Why Not Flash? When Apple revealed the iPad many people were quick to point out that, like the iPhone, it lacks support for Adobe’s Flash software. It’s a little shocking that a device Apple has billed as “the best way to experience Web, e-mail, and photos” doesn’t support such a important and commonly used Web plug-in.
Flash is sometimes cited as a security concern, but it’s hard to believe that Apple, with all its engineering and design genius, couldn’t find a way to address that issue without blocking off so much functionality. Adobe certainly seems indignant. Adrian Ludwig, Adobe’s group manager of Flash Platform product marketing, wrote in a blog post: […] without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70% of games and 75% of video on the web. Adobe does have a solution for frustrated developers. Google turned to HTML 5 to power this application through the browser, but Flash is even more powerful and versatile. Heating. For a long time? Monday, 25 January 2010 In my “Tablet Musings” piece two weeks ago, I speculated that Apple’s imminent tablet probably won’t support Flash, for all the same reasons the iPhone doesn’t.
Reaction to this was polarized — typically either “duh, of course it won’t” or “no way, it has to support Flash”. You can see both reactions represented in the thread on my piece at Hacker News. One group is going to be very surprised come Wednesday. I’ve been writing about this saga for two years. On Flash and Mac OS X Application Crashes Two weeks ago I wrote: To my knowledge, Apple controls the entire source code to the iPhone OS. Several readers asked me for the source for my accusation contained in that last sentence, that Flash is the “leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X”. Here’s the deal. Apple did this for two reasons. Serlet didn’t name any specific guilty plugins.
Total crashes = (crashing bugs) × (actual use) This is why Apple wants to control the source code to the entire OS. Why? Due to a decline? Can Flash be saved? UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled “Google +will+ save Flash.” Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Because those sites were coded specifically for the dominant Internet Explorer back then. Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links. But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn’t work on Firefox? What happened? The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer.
This has Adobe freaked out. So, can Adobe save Flash? But Google can. The thing is, does Google want to? Could Nokia help Adobe out? Could Microsoft help Adobe out? Could RIM help Adobe out? Is there some way for Adobe to convince Apple that Flash matters? How about you? Can it do it? Iphone apps are no Web apps. UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled “Google +will+ save Flash.” Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites.
Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links. But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn’t work on Firefox? What happened? The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer.
This has Adobe freaked out. So, can Adobe save Flash? But Google can. The thing is, does Google want to? Google is widely seen as the only company right now that is challenging Apple at all (and even then, Google’s Android is clearly #2 in the race and doesn’t look like it will be able to challenge iPhone/iPad this year). Could Nokia help Adobe out? Could Microsoft help Adobe out? How about you? Plug-ins drive innovation. UPDATE: for a good counterpoint to this blog, see my new post titled “Google +will+ save Flash.” Let’s go back a few years to when Firefox was just coming on the scene. Remember that? I remember that it didn’t work with a ton of websites. Things like banks, ecommerce sites, and others. Why not? Some people thought Firefox was going to fail because of these broken links.
But just a few years later and have you seen a site that doesn’t work on Firefox? What happened? The same thing is happening now, based on my talks with developers: they are not including Flash in their future web plans any longer. This has Adobe freaked out. So, can Adobe save Flash? But Google can. The thing is, does Google want to? Google is widely seen as the only company right now that is challenging Apple at all (and even then, Google’s Android is clearly #2 in the race and doesn’t look like it will be able to challenge iPhone/iPad this year). Could Nokia help Adobe out? Could Microsoft help Adobe out? Can it do it? Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Ap. After a big public announcement of the sort Apple had this week for the iPad CEO Steve Jobs often takes time in the day or two afterwards to have a Town Hall at One Infinite Loop, making himself available for questions from employees bold enough to stand up and take one right between the eyes.
This time, the big topics included Google and Adobe — no surprises there. Google recently unveiled its own Android-powered handset, the Nexus One, whose release Jan. 5 prompted Jobs to perhaps over-react by announcing on the same day that the iTunes store had served up three billion apps and that "... we see no signs of the competition catching up any time soon. " Apple's billionth iPhone app download was greeted with great fanfare, but the two billionth not so much, so it felt a tad like Jobs was feeling some heat. On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them, he says. As ubiquitous as html. Why Apple Won’t Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone | Gadget Lab | Wired. Don’t hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe’s Flash software: Apple’s terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone, Apple is unlikely ever to permit it to appear in the handset’s App Store, no matter how much customers want it.
“I’m pretty skeptical that Flash could be implemented in a way that doesn’t violate the Terms of Service of the developer’s agreement,” said Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous, developer of the popular Tap Tap Revenge iPhone game. Flash is Adobe’s highly popular platform for displaying interactive graphics, animations and multimedia within a browser. According to Adobe, 98 percent of desktop computers currently support Flash, which has led to its widespread use by web developers. Apple’s well aware of these problems, which is why the company wrote a clause in its iPhone developers’ Terms of Service agreement (.pdf) that prohibits Flash from appearing on the iPhone: