Adobe Stops Flash Development for the iPhone & iPad

Um ... both of those run modified OS X, which means it is basically modified Unix.
Surely Linux binaries will work just fine on both, just like Linux binaries work fine on 'BSD
 
rypt said:
Um ... both of those run modified OS X, which means it is basically modified Unix.
Surely Linux binaries will work just fine on both, just like Linux binaries work fine on 'BSD
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Totally against Apple's philosophy that makes the iPhone so fast on such slow hardware.

HTML5 seems as rich and feature-full as Flash and Silverlight, but it's free (as in freedom). Both devices support it now, so hopefully it becomes the one everyone who uses flash now switches to.
 
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Apple don't want anything Adobe make to work on their products. Lots of bad blood at the mo Re the whole Flash CS5 compiling to iPhone app debacle.
 
I don't think apple will be to worrid. With Ajax, HTML 5 etc flash based sites are a thing of the past. And native iPhone apps are much better than flash apps.
 
rypt said:
So let Apple go fix it ...
Adobe should just release Linux binaries that work fine on Linux and BSD, and Apple can then easily make it work on OS X
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Why would Apple want to do that? I think you need to read up on the background of the Apple/Flash escapade.
 
Stretch said:
I don't think apple will be to worrid. With Ajax, HTML 5 etc flash based sites are a thing of the past. And native iPhone apps are much better than flash apps.
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HTML5 is still in it's infancy. It's made huge strides in adoption, but isn't anywhere near making flash redundant yet.
 
BigglesPiP said:
Totally against Apple's philosophy that makes the iPhone so fast on such slow hardware.

HTMT5 seems as rich and feature-full as Flash and Silverlight, but it's free (as in freedom). Both devices support it now, so hopefully it becomes the one everyone who uses flash now switches to.
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This.

Flash is a CPU hog and fundamentally a bad idea for mobile devices. Why reinvent the wheel using a proprietary system when the web browser can do HTML5 and make most efficient use of the local hardware.
 
Burnsy2023 said:
Why would Apple want to do that? I think you need to read up on the background of the Apple/Flash escapade.
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Because currently Flash is a major part of the web, and I would expect people who buy iPhones and iPads want to view the web, and hence want to view Flash.
If I had the choice between flash and non-flash device I would pick one that can handle flash, however much I personally dislike flash.
 
Apple responded in a statement to technology news site CNet in which it described Flash as "closed and proprietary". Apple preferred to support more open standards which replicate everything Flash can do, added the statement.
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I lol'd.
 
rypt said:
Because currently Flash is a major part of the web, and I would expect people who buy iPhones and iPads want to view the web, and hence want to view Flash.
If I had the choice between flash and non-flash device I would pick one that can handle flash, however much I personally dislike flash.
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This. It's not great, but it's used an awful lot. Although less these days.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Hopefully this will mean no more Flash in the future :x:
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Can only hope.

A decent windows browser plugin for multicore PC with multi gigahertz processors does not make it suitable for mobile devices.

Was speaking to someone at work today, he was watching iPlayer over WiFi on the new HTC Android thing. About 45 minutes mullered the battery...
 
meghatronic said:
This. It's not great, but it's used an awful lot. Although less these days.
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So was realplayer, and you don't see many mobile devices supporting that via the web browser nowadays.

Flash has had it's day. What started off as an animation plugin has got too big for it's boots.
 
MagicBoy said:
So was realplayer, and you don't see many mobile devices supporting that via the web browser nowadays.

Flash has had it's day. What started off as an animation plugin has got too big for it's boots.
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Perhaps - but it isn't up to Apple to dictate to users what they should use.

No. Wait.
 
rypt said:
Because currently Flash is a major part of the web, and I would expect people who buy iPhones and iPads want to view the web, and hence want to view Flash. If I had the choice between flash and non-flash device I would pick one that can handle flash, however much I personally dislike flash.
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It's pretty rare that I miss having Flash on the iPhone, since (besides video) on most sites all it gets used for is adverts, and on a mobile device I don't care for those anyway. That said, there are times when I'd like to be able to watch a video and can't because it's implemented using Flash. So, while it isn't a showstopper, I'd still rather have it than not.

Adrianr said:
I lol'd.
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Glad someone else spotted the irony in that, though it'd have been nice to spot it first. :D

MagicBoy said:
Flash has had it's day. What started off as an animation plugin has got too big for it's boots.
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This. Flash has been the ultimate in specification creep. PDF hasn't been that far behind either (though at least PDF is still - mostly - static content).

HTML 5 seems like a good idea on paper, but it, too, has been the subject of specification creep with far too many 'hacks' to make things work. That was the beauty of XHTML 1.0 Strict - nice, clean, and verifiable. Still, maybe Apple will implement it on the iPhone 5G.

PS - I'm not anti-Apple. I own an iPhone, and a Mac - this doesn't stop me criticising some of their practices, however.
 
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