It’s not just sucking battery. It’s poor performance. It’s the fact that most Flash apps are not made for touch screens. It’s that Flash is notoriously buggy, causing browser or OS instability and crashes in pretty much every platform it’s on. It’s that Flash is notoriously insecure, the source of many vulnerabilities across multiple computing platforms.
The gift of Flash is a white elephant.
Right, but we’ve all been over this many times before. Battery is one of the excuses, but not the only one.
I’m not defending flash, it’s apples attitude that’s bad.
Like the Democrats, Apple thinks they know better than you, that they, not you, should be making the decisions.
Flash might suck, but it did get where it was for some reason. People like it. People who do webpages like to use flash sometimes and they want people to see the flash they use, and don’t like apple preventing their people from seeing that content. People want the content on the webpages they go to, not Apple’s approved content. Aren’t a lot of widgets in flash? I would predict your answer would likely be data showing a drop off in the use of flash in widgets. Which would be caused in part by apples refusing to show flash.
I’m not a big fan of flash, it’s Apple’s attitude toward it.
People clearly do want flash, based on the downloads of the pseudoflash browser for the ipad. And flash is far better today than it was 10 years ago when every band page had an unnecessary flash intro. Back then, computers were not better equipped to handle flash. But we survived, and flash turned out to be pretty handy.