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The death of flash started a couple of year ago when technologies like jQuery could achieve some of the same animations only flash could do.
Dolby, I thought you would've gotten the picture by now.....
You're blaming the wrong crowd. Don't blame Apple for not putting something on their devices that would make the devices run poorly. Next time you are on your PC. Just check how much resources your browser is using when you open a page with flash content. Seeing that the iPhone 4 for instance, only has 512MB RAM, why would they want to give 200 - 300MB RAM to flash? Basically cut the speed of your device in half, if not even more.
Yes, sometimes there are things that they do which are a bit stupid. Like having to wait for the 3rd revision of the OS before MMS came on board. Then I read an article about how it was actually AT&T who didn't want them to put MMS on yet. They take a lot of their functionality choices from the Service Providers as well. The 30MB thing on 3G, think that is more in relation to people not downloading Modern Combat 3 on 3G, which is 1.05GB. You average user won't look at the size. So I think they made the right choice to protect their consumers a bit. Remember, their devices are not made for the 3rd world countries like ours. In USA and other 1st World Countries, WiFi is everywhere, and free most of the time. 3G is a backup.
Every web designer has known for the last few years. Don't make a site in just flash, and then not have a mobile site or a non flash site as an alternative.
Regarding YouTube, I've still not come across 1 single video that I cannot view on my iPhone or iPad2.
.mp4 has been around for years. If you're a web designer, and you choose to only encode a video on your site in .flv, then it is your own laziness. You visitors will suffer.
Your argument is like saying that you're upset that the iDevices don't want to do things that you knew it wasn't going to do.
Let it go, move on with your life. Just trust in the engineers at Apple. They're trying to make the world a better place.
From day 1, they've always been about simplifying technology for their users. I applaud them for that, and one day, you will as well.
Do you not enjoy your 10 hour plus battery life? Would you sacrifice the fluid response and speed of the device as well as the battery, just so that you can play a facebook game? Or wait, visit nandos.co.za
Every device has its limits, some are there for a very good reason, some are their because it is a cheap device.
I think we can all agree it is not the latter when it comes to the iDevices.
I just think you're not completely getting the point that people have been trying to make for the last few weeks. I just think you really enjoy bringing up the same old arguement, again and again and again.
Fear not, I will be here to remind you of your lack of an idea what you're talking about
You don't even know how to view YouTube in HTML5......
You're blaming the wrong crowd. Don't blame Apple for not putting something on their devices that would make the devices run poorly. Next time you are on your PC. Just check how much resources your browser is using when you open a page with flash content. Seeing that the iPhone 4 for instance, only has 512MB RAM, why would they want to give 200 - 300MB RAM to flash? Basically cut the speed of your device in half, if not even more.
Yes, sometimes there are things that they do which are a bit stupid. Like having to wait for the 3rd revision of the OS before MMS came on board. Then I read an article about how it was actually AT&T who didn't want them to put MMS on yet. They take a lot of their functionality choices from the Service Providers as well. The 30MB thing on 3G, think that is more in relation to people not downloading Modern Combat 3 on 3G, which is 1.05GB. You average user won't look at the size. So I think they made the right choice to protect their consumers a bit. Remember, their devices are not made for the 3rd world countries like ours. In USA and other 1st World Countries, WiFi is everywhere, and free most of the time. 3G is a backup.
Every web designer has known for the last few years. Don't make a site in just flash, and then not have a mobile site or a non flash site as an alternative.
Regarding YouTube, I've still not come across 1 single video that I cannot view on my iPhone or iPad2.
.mp4 has been around for years. If you're a web designer, and you choose to only encode a video on your site in .flv, then it is your own laziness. You visitors will suffer.
Your argument is like saying that you're upset that the iDevices don't want to do things that you knew it wasn't going to do.
Let it go, move on with your life. Just trust in the engineers at Apple. They're trying to make the world a better place.
From day 1, they've always been about simplifying technology for their users. I applaud them for that, and one day, you will as well.
Do you not enjoy your 10 hour plus battery life? Would you sacrifice the fluid response and speed of the device as well as the battery, just so that you can play a facebook game? Or wait, visit nandos.co.za
Every device has its limits, some are there for a very good reason, some are their because it is a cheap device.
I think we can all agree it is not the latter when it comes to the iDevices.
I just think you're not completely getting the point that people have been trying to make for the last few weeks. I just think you really enjoy bringing up the same old arguement, again and again and again.
Fear not, I will be here to remind you of your lack of an idea what you're talking about
You don't even know how to view YouTube in HTML5......
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Bern
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I am not a developer or a techie, but I would be really glad not to have to use Silverlight for anything. All the things I run that use silverlight are buggy and keep crashing, so I really hope what you are saying is true! Oh, Silverlight also seems to love eating resources, if I run something using it I automatically lose 25 to 40% battery life
On Flash, I will be so glad - has anyone else also had a lot more Flash crashes of late? I have had quite a few in Chrome, Firefox and Opera. Really irritating as I have to load the whole(s) again each time.
eltherza
Expert Member
But we all know that's not the MAIN reason apple stopped support for flash. Going around app store [because almost anything the app store offers could be done in flash] and using another company owned software is a double no-no.