Flash them Apples!

[Steinar Valsson]

VORBOTEN!

Its verboten,

I've actually done 8 units in German, I just wrote the ending in a hurry.
Ich weiß, es "Verboten" geschrieben, ich habe es durcheinander.

 

[Steinar Valsson]

OP, did you read the reasons why Flash isn't in the IOS?

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

I can't play PSP UMD's in my iPhone either, and you know? I'm okay with that.

But if the iPhone was made to run many kinds of CD's, you might not be OK with it. The iPhone/Pad are among others web surfing tools that can use many forms, java, html, php and more but not Flash?

To comment on your link, I find it a bit ironic that the Apple spokesperson starts it of by saying how closed Flash is and it's not open and that adobe is the only one controlling it. Reflecting much, Apple?

 

[Thaliur]

The big three are internet explorer, adobe acrobat, and adobe flash. These softwares are targeted because they have huge install bases.

Actually, IE is only still targeted because of vulnerabilities in (third party) plugins like Flash or Java. The browser itself is extremely secure as long as you keep it up to date (for some weird reason, there are still people who use IE6 though...).

From what I've heard Apple considers Flash too much of a system hog, claiming it would dramatically reduce battery life.

And that came from the company that made iTunes? Amazing...

Have you ever tried itunes on a mac? It's incredibly fast to open, the windows version is just a crappy port.

That's because components of it are constantly running in the background and "launching" the program just adds the interface. Like on Windows. The only real difference is, in case of Mac OS these components are tightly integrated into the system, on Windows, they are forced in and turn the computer into an electronic version of a Jenga stack.

 

[Zero=Interrupt]

OP, did you read the reasons why Flash isn't in the IOS?

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

I can't play PSP UMD's in my iPhone either, and you know? I'm okay with that.

But if the iPhone was made to run many kinds of CD's, you might not be OK with it. The iPhone/Pad are among others web surfing tools that can use many forms, java, html, php and more but not Flash?

To comment on your link, I find it a bit ironic that the Apple spokesperson starts it of by saying how closed Flash is and it's not open and that adobe is the only one controlling it. Reflecting much, Apple?

But the iPhone... doesn't... run... CD's....

Honestly, Flash compatibility doesn't make a difference to me and really doesn't affect my browsing experience on the iPhone enough to be an issue. I tried a android phone before the iPhone came to Verizon, and found it to be rather blah, and all of my friends with android-based machines have numerous complaints that I quite frankly don't worry about with iOS.

This doesn't address your "are you okay with them being in control" question, though, so here goes. If I buy something made by a company, I expect them to support it and for it to be worth my time and money. When spending that amount of money on a mobile device, I like to check out what it can and can't do, and to be honest, I don't miss Flash support one bit. If Apple doesn't want to support flash, they don't have to, and people can buy or not buy based on that (obviously, the majority of people don't give a shit, b/c the iOS device sell like nothing else) . If Sony only wants the PSP to support their OS, and not do anything but play games written for it, that's their right. It's their product.

What you should do is turn it around and put the onus on Adobe to make their software work with the iOS. They're a software company, and if they want their stuff to see wide use, it behooves them to make it as open as possible and compatible with as many things as they can. You were honest up front about your anti-Apple stance and that's fine, everyone's entitled to their own opinions, but you might be barking up the wrong tree this time.