Column: iPad > PCs

[bwana]

I'm still effected by Flash issues - so obviously this hasn't forced that many developers to follow Mr Jobs. In a few years Flash will probably be gone totally, but that's almost a decade since Mr Jobs announced it and forbade any of his devices to have it. That's a decade that his fans haven't been able to use current technologies.

Please, stop distorting reality.

 

[Dolby]

Please, stop distorting reality.

Um.

What is reality then?

Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

'Forbade' and 'do not allow' sound fairly similar to me :/

 

[Mouse]

In a few years Flash will probably be gone totally, but that's almost a decade since Mr Jobs announced it and forbade any of his devices to have it. That's a decade that his fans haven't been able to use current technologies.

Flash is still allowed on OSX. The real reason that its still in use, is IE.
Anyway, I prefer Apple's pushing technology forward to Microsoft's holding technology back.

 

[bwana]

Um.

What is reality then?

Mr Jobs announced it and forbade any of his devices to have it.

The reality is my laptop supports flash, as do all of their PCs. It is only iOS devices and for good reason.

I'm loving that Apple helped drive at least one massive iOS sized nail in flash's coffin.

 

[Dolby]

The thread is on the iPad - why'd I be talking Macs?

 

[RoosTa]

The iPad's huge market share is also good because it means all those flash developers will need to rewrite their sites in html5 or face being left out, and once they do that they are not too far off from deciding they don't actually need the flash version of their sites anyway (just need to get all those idiots to stop using Internet Exploder)

A reduction in flash use is a great side effect

Shouldn't be too hard since Adobe has released a tool to do just that:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/Adobe_Releases_Flash_to_HTML5_Conversion_Tool.php

 

[bwana]

The thread is on the iPad - why'd I be talking Macs?

This thread is on iPads and PCs - check the title if you don't believe me.

 

[Dolby]

Just follow the thread where we're talking iPad, iOS devices and Flash before my comment?

I'm not going argue on that so ... really silly :/

My comment stands - he forbade them on iOS yet so many sales and half a decade later, there are still millions of Flash sites. We're buying the iPad now, not in 10 years

 

[bwana]

We're buying the iPad now, not in 10 years

We're buying it with the full knowledge and understanding, since day one, that there will be no flash support. If you don't like it don't buy it because moaning about it later is just asinine.

 

[zeely]

Um.

What is reality then?

Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads.

'Forbade' and 'do not allow' sound fairly similar to me :/

actually, that's not ENTIRELY true. Flash doesn't work in the iOS safari browser. However, you can write flash apps and compile them with FLEX, and publish it in the App store. I know of a number of apps using this technology...

 

[Dolby]

actually, that's not ENTIRELY true. Flash doesn't work in the iOS safari browser. However, you can write flash apps and compile them with FLEX, and publish it in the App store. I know of a number of apps using this technology...

What's not true?

That's a quote from Mr Jobs