It’s pretty cool until you need to look at anything created with Flash. When the heck is Apple going to get its head out of it’s orifice and start working with Adobe to get Flash on their devices!!! It’s funny, being the company that produced the 1984 commercial about breaking free from the thought police.. Now Apple IS the thought police.. “You can only use our apps”.. I guess it’s been a few years since 1984..
When are people going to move to HTML5?
Trouble is, Flash is a security horror-show and a processor hog. It’s crashy and demanding of the hardware.
Adobe complains that Apple won’t let them have CPU-level access to the hardware like they do on Windows, but considering the vulnerability after vulnerability suffered by Flash, who can blame ‘em? Especially now that there are open alternatives (e.g., HTML5 or Ogg Theora).
And the security issues are especially grave when the hardware in question is a powerful, always-connected, location-aware computer in your pocket. The ramifications for security breaches make some experts grow pale, and Apple takes that very seriously. That’s why demonstration botnets have been shown in the wild on Android handsets (courtesy of a malware-infected weather app that thousands of folks downloaded) but not on the iPhone.
Given its history, Flash is a worrisome vector for such things. It really needs to go away.
Plus, there are programming puzzlements for many Flash applications that use mouse-overs and hovers and other features that might be problematic, unnatural or impossible on a touchscreen platform. Which means some applications would need to be rewritten for touchscreens. If that’s the case, why not just rewrite in HTML5? A whole bunch of folks including Netflix and ABC and CBS and, soon, Hulu have made the leap. Google too— they’re dropping their own Google Gears engine in favor of HTML5.
That’s the future knocking. Apple answered, choosing 10 hour battery life over Flash.
The real Thought Police is Adobe, which could seize the opportunity to become the citadel of HTML5 design tools but instead appears to be clinging to a troublesome, insecure technology that needs to die.
When the heck is Apple going to get its head out of it’s orifice and start working with Adobe to get Flash on their devices!!!
It's not going to happen with Flash... it's trashware and it's the cause of a lot of computers crashing. There's no need to put trashware on Apple products when you can do the video through other means -- and websites are changing out of the trashware, Flash, and moving over to the open standard video that Apple does use. They're getting smart about that trashware.
What you'll find, actually, is a lot of the complainers that you may find in the developer world who want Flash, want to use it to do an end run around Apple apps and Apple is not going to open the platform up to trash being created on it and crashing the device all the time, as Flash does.
There are lots of apps for the iDevices that are not created by Apple. I have many on my iPhone and now iPad. Now apple does review them. For the iPhone it was more a matter of making sure the phone’s primary functions were not interfered with and making sure you didn’t suck down the battery in an hour.
As for Flash, flash does suck. I have problems with it all the time, mostly when watching video. And talk about resource hog. Oink oink.
ABC already has and iPad app. I finished watching “V” on the iPad. Looked great. CBS is starting to offer some non flash, H.264 video, but full length videos are not there yet. The worst website I’ve visited was NBC.com. Their site sent me to their mobile version, which might look okay on the iPhone, looks terrible on the pad. Not only that, but most sane web designers will give you the option of visiting the full site. No such luck there. I’m not broken up over it; we all know NBC sucks so it was no surprise. I only went there out of curiosity.
That is one thing I don’t like about my iPhone-it does not work with Flash..
Last I heard, it wasn’t Apple that was anti-flash/Adobe. It was Adobe being thick-headed. But what are details - either way, flash stuff doesn’t work on iPhone/iPad which annoys me.
I still love my iPhone, but at this time, don’t see a good reason for fork over cash for an iPad. I am in much bigger need of a new MacBook and/or iMac. My G5 dual 1.8 is starting to get long in the tooth. Really noticed when doing some video editing this past week. Rendering was a drag. The iBook G4 that I am typing this on, though slightly younger than the PowerMac at home, is even longer in the tooth...