Flash on iPhone? -- a computer that doesn't support Flash is a flawed computer.
Arm and Adobe have recently teamed up to bring Flash 10 to Arm devices. The iPhone runs on ARM. Still, I don't think Apple is going to allow it. They want javascript to replace Flash. In theory I agree with Apple (in not wanting Adobe to control the web with proprietary Flash) but in reality, at this present moment, I agree with you. Two years from now though, who knows? Javascript (and HTML5 things like Canvas and local SQLlite databases) is increasing in power at a tremendous rate. It can eventually catch Flash I think in terms of power but it clearly isn't there yet. The iPhone holding out might be the one thing that can keep Flash from just becoming the defacto standard (and Apple is just stubborn enough to maybe hold out in the face of present day reality.)
But you're 100% right. It's not the real web without Flash no matter how much I (or Steve Jobs) want this not to be the case.
Here's a problem Flash has solved:
Watching Playing the commercials is mandatory. (One can always mute and do something else during the damn commercial. And as far as I can tell, once the commercial has been played once, one can rewind past it without having to watch it again.)
Anyway, the copyright holding corporations like that bit.
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- mark 11-18-2008 7:28 pm
Arm and Adobe have recently teamed up to bring Flash 10 to Arm devices. The iPhone runs on ARM. Still, I don't think Apple is going to allow it. They want javascript to replace Flash. In theory I agree with Apple (in not wanting Adobe to control the web with proprietary Flash) but in reality, at this present moment, I agree with you. Two years from now though, who knows? Javascript (and HTML5 things like Canvas and local SQLlite databases) is increasing in power at a tremendous rate. It can eventually catch Flash I think in terms of power but it clearly isn't there yet. The iPhone holding out might be the one thing that can keep Flash from just becoming the defacto standard (and Apple is just stubborn enough to maybe hold out in the face of present day reality.)
But you're 100% right. It's not the real web without Flash no matter how much I (or Steve Jobs) want this not to be the case.
- jim 11-18-2008 8:05 pm
Here's a problem Flash has solved:
WatchingPlaying the commercials is mandatory. (One can always mute and do something else during the damn commercial. And as far as I can tell, once the commercial has been played once, one can rewind past it without having to watch it again.)Anyway, the copyright holding corporations like that bit.
- mark 11-18-2008 9:51 pm