Early stages
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Reading all the comments for, against, and otherwise on Adobe Flash on mobile devices have been quite enlightening. I am mostly ambivalent about it, which is why I haven’t come out with a solid position yet. But since everyone else has shared, it’s only fair that I reciprocate. Flash, Silverlight or other, they’re all plug-ins. Flash is the most popular, but the concept is the same: a separate application running in your browser to view and use content. This is fine for forms of content that cannot be displayed correctly or adequately within a browser.
My take on the Flash controversy | GottaBeMobile
1. O3D Beach Demo: The enclosed demo shows how fast it is to change whole portions of an application when editing in-browser. 2.
Death to Flash: 3 Great HTML 5 Demos - ReadWriteStart
Comments are far better than the article by May 16
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.
Why Not Flash?
Heating
Man, Adobe and its kin are not letting up here. In addition to the company releasing a terse, carefully worded response to the Apple iPad's apparent lack of Flash , the Flash Blog took a much more truculent approach. Exhibit A: a post entitled "The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?"
Adobe is lazy, there are still a lot of bugs in flash. I would say who work hard wo own the honour. by Feb 11
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 .Due to a decline?
Just like it isn't on the iPhone and iPod touch, Adobe's Flash browser plug-in will not be on the iPad , and there are a whole lot of opinions about that decision. Predictably, Steve's apostles are smug , Adobe's pouting , and the rest of us will have to field questions from our relatives about why they keep seeing a blue lego piece . Flash usage has been declining over the years anyway, and a few web publishers have shared numbers to prove the point. 32% of visitors to John Gruber's Mac blog Daring Fireball , which has a large percentage of visitors from the Flashless-by-default iPhone/iPod touch, did not have Flash enabled. Andy Baio says 16% of Waxy.org visitors don't have Flash enabled, up from 4% a year ago. This site wasn't around a year ago, but about 16% of Smarterware visitors don't have Flash enabled either.
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.
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?
Iphone apps are no Web apps
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.
The video, which is embedded below shows the New York Times being accessed from the iPad. What is interesting is that two sections of the NY Times website - Travel and Video are built on Flash. Despite this, the iPad demoed on the video does not show any difficulty in rendering Flash. Apple has quickly replaced the video with a more accurate version to avoid further speculations by removing Flash content from the video.
Decision taken anyway...
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.
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Ap
From The Associated Press: “Federal regulators plan to examine whether Apple Inc. is violating antitrust rules by requiring software developers to use Apple programming tools to create applications for the iPhone and iPad. … Apple’s policy prevents developers from using outside tools such as Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash format.”
DOJ, FTC launch antitrust inquiry into Apple's dev tools
That will be very interesting to follow the gouvernment entering this battle. by May 5
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.