Comments on: Adobe finally brings Flash support to iOS devices http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steven http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-137614 Steven Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:47:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-137614 Same reason Microsoft software is still buggy; its cheaper to let your monopoly power hold market share.

]]> By: Steven http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-137615 Steven Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:47:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-137615 Same reason Microsoft software is still buggy; its cheaper to let your monopoly power hold market share.

]]> By: Steven http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-137610 Steven Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-137610 You could have just liked his post and saved space. If my comment prevents at least one useless comment, my comment saved space.

]]> By: Steven http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-137611 Steven Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:37:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-137611 You could have just liked his post and saved space. If my comment prevents at least one useless comment, my comment saved space.

]]> By: Idon't Know http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135475 Idon't Know Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:22:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135475 This does not bring Flash to iOS.  It detects iOS 5 and sends HTML 5 video instead.  Pay attention.  Sheesh.
In other words Apple just won as did iOS users.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135457 Anonymous Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135457 Flash is just a horrible idea on mobile devices. apart from the resource hungry part and the fact that you NEED to have processor power and ram. You also need to consider that other web programming languages can suffice the need to stream multimedia and other content. HTML5, php, CGI, phython, ruby on rails, and ajax (I hate that last one but I’ll consider it ;p ) can all be used either alone or in combination to make things like netflix, icloud (or google music if your on android), and a lot of games mostly work much faster, keep their “DRM” B.S. and even enable their services and or applications to run on webkit enabled devices. Why these languages? because they are freaking stable, customizable, FOSS, fast and can even save you money when you need to buy a server. When companies decide to use their own proprietary languages, such as flash, instead of the industry acknowledged languages of the web you are really making things really difficult for people. Now because your application XXX NEEDS to use some dumb DRM that you don’t want cracked (even if you use flash it can be cracked mind you; most things man makes can be broken into) and WANTS some animation (which you can do with HTML5, ajax and javascript) then you are FORCING me the users to purchase more powerful mobile devices that would other wise be useless to me. The only reason why a company would even want to use flash on any device (yes even desktops/laptops) is because they either think that ONLY flash has the ability to make their app have animations or because they want to have a FALSE sense of security assurance that their content will not be stolen and reproduced by others. Hence why I don’t install flash unless I NEED to and I HAVE the ability. my laptop needs to have flash because of my school and that the only place/site where I even use flash. While my two android devices and my ipod touch don’t need flash, becuase if I were to use flash on my carrier to play a flash game online or to watch netflix…. I would have to wait forever for the movie to load (yes I have metropcs).
P.S. if you were to use HTML5 or one of the languages above you can also drastically improve the battery life when streaming content.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135445 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:56:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135445 Good lord, touchy subject?

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135440 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135440 I agree with Rich

]]> By: Rich Allen http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135439 Rich Allen Fri, 09 Sep 2011 22:06:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135439 Flash works perfectly on my HTC EVO. Kongregate games work perfectly, websites work as they should. I haven’t experienced the any of the issues that so many complain about. Not on my Android Phone, my Windows desktop, my Windows 2003 server, my iMac, either one of my Windows Laptops, or my Netbook. Not one instability, or crash. Flash always loads and plays pretty much as I expect. I just can’t help but wonder wonder what kind of obsolete hardware is involved in this discussion.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135437 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:53:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135437 Are you series? People are still paying for Coldfusion sites! Of course they are. Let me guess, the last time you used ColdFusion was version 5 or less. You still think it is only a tag based language like the old days? Do you even realize that CF can be written just as any other OO programming language? Are you even aware that it fully integrates with the modern  .NET platform and that when even writing complexed functionality, you can still deploy it  approx 30% faster then most other web based languages? Do you know that really you are working with Java now when coding CF? Are you aware it has one of the largest built in class libraries and function sets? Honestly I was digging your post right up until you basically said CF sucks, then it lost all credability. I think you need to educate yourself with regards to modern day CF before providing an opinion. I fluently write PHP, ASP, CF and .NET and CF is an incrediblity powerful and scalable platform.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135438 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:53:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135438 Are you series? People are still paying for Coldfusion sites! Of course they are. Let me guess, the last time you used ColdFusion was version 5 or less. You still think it is only a tag based language like the old days? Do you even realize that CF can be written just as any other OO programming language? Are you even aware that it fully integrates with the modern  .NET platform and that when even writing complexed functionality, you can still deploy it  approx 30% faster then most other web based languages? Do you know that really you are working with Java now when coding CF? Are you aware it has one of the largest built in class libraries and function sets? Honestly I was digging your post right up until you basically said CF sucks, then it lost all credability. I think you need to educate yourself with regards to modern day CF before providing an opinion. I fluently write PHP, ASP, CF and .NET and CF is an incrediblity powerful and scalable platform.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135433 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135433 Lets not.forget EVERYONE that current model low end android phones need this just as much as ipads iPhone and ipods…

Think of the collective energy savings from switching to h.264… My phone does flash, but I prefer h.264 when available to save my.battery..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135432 Anonymous Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:58:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135432 No they expect your employers to..

]]> By: Pat Dissent http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135431 Pat Dissent Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:53:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135431 Is anyone in the industry – EVER! – going to ask Adobe _WHY_ they have had years to make Flash not be a pile of steaming crap and _STILL_ can’t do it? Every day that goes by only proves the infamous “Thoughts on Flash” letter look not only absolutely true, but more and more prophetic. 

]]> By: John Law http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135427 John Law Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135427 Is this a joke? Does Adobe really expect us to fork over even more money to code in Flash? Now they expect us to pay for the development cycles, pay for the hosting software, and pay for the CPU cycles it takes for the animation! But I guess someone will buy it. After all, there are still people paying for Cold Fusion sites.

]]> By: John Law http://www.slashgear.com/adobe-finally-brings-flash-support-to-ios-devices-09178463/#comment-135428 John Law Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:48:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=178463#comment-135428 Is this a joke? Does Adobe really expect us to fork over even more money to code in Flash? Now they expect us to pay for the development cycles, pay for the hosting software, and pay for the CPU cycles it takes for the animation! But I guess someone will buy it. After all, there are still people paying for Cold Fusion sites.

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