June 2010
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Adobe's Flash and Acrobat have 'critical'... →
When Adobe said Flash gives you the full web experience, it meant it. Part and parcel of the web, as we all know, is the good old hacking community, which has been “actively exploiting” a vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (and earlier versions) and Adobe Acrobat and Reader 9.x to overtake people’s machines and do hacky stuff with them. This so-called flaw also causes...
May 2010
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Adobe CEO not making any sense
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/29/live-blogging-the-journals-interview-with-adobe-ceo/?mod=wsj_share_digg
What I find interesting after watching this video, most of it is the Adobe CEO yapping on about how “innovative” and “wonderful” CS5 is. I realised that the CEO has missed something…
He’s talking about how Flash bridges the gap between multiple...
April 2010
6 posts
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“Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical...”
– Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash
“Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself. You made a business decision in 1996 to...”
– Sharing the truth one thread at a time (via @chimpocalypse) (via oliyoung)
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“We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the...”
– Steve Jobs replying to emails regarding “Section 3.3.1” in the Developer License Agreement.
This is one of my main points behind why Flash should not exist on mobile. It just acts as another layer that increases the amount of bugs, glitches, crashes, hold ups and loss of performance for...
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“Any Flash Developers that want to develop iPhone Applications but now are lost,...”
– Me, Alex Eckermann.
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Theories why Apple doesn't want Flash
After all the hype this morning and the delivery of the iPhone OS 4.0 preview there were some interesting posts and comments made about the Apple v. Flash debate.
Conspiracy theories and thoughts about why Apple don’t want Flash on the iPhone range from the rational to the big company domination points of view. I see myself being more rational about these theories. Some I have come across...
February 2010
3 posts
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Adobe reports 7mil page requests to download Flash...
Doherty notes that by December 2009, as many as 7 million iPhone users had tried to download Flash. Figures had reached 3 million by June of that year.
Source: iPodNN
I found out about this statistic about a month ago, didn’t think much of it. This morning @bjango tweeted some perspective on this statistic that I wanted to share.
Perspective: 7mil = ~10% of all iPhone/iPod owners...
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“Matthew Dempsky has discovered a bug which will crash the Flash player on every...”
– 16 month-old bug continues to crash Flash, TUAW
If this is how long it takes Adobe to fix a crashing bug then how long will it take to update an exploit? With our mobile devices containing high amounts of personal data do we really want to risk having it available because of an exploit not fixed...
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An interesting conversation
An interesting conversation broke out on twitter between a co-worker @keithpitt and a user @JarZ.
@JarZ: But breaking compatibility with many, many websites by omitting flash is just silly and unnecessary, imo.
We’ll thats not the devices fault. As a web developer myself, whenever I have to use Flash I always have a fallback. Since recently everything had Flash some people got slack...
January 2010
11 posts
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“Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. […] Whenever a Mac...”
– Steve Jobs, CEO Apple
Well I think that just about sums up the debate here.
[Wired]
[FormSpring] What about Farmville?
The first FormSpring question.
If Farmville wants to hit the mobile market it could. If I was them I would build a web application built for mobiles. Using Javascript for animations and any basic effects. Although its worth remembering the device we are dealing with here.
Mobiles dont have a lot of graphical ompfh nor not a lot of memory. So Farmville Lite would be a good option.
It’s up...
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[POLL] Why do you want Flash? →
Can anyone visiting that still wants Flash on the iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices answer this poll.
Im gathering information and trying to find out what the people want.
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Flash test results and why it shouldn't be mobile
I did a test to see how consuming Flash was on a computer.
Now it would be wrong of me to just blatantly say “You’re battery will die before the video ends” when using Flash on a mobile device. I know Flash would have a cut down version for mobile, I know that.
So we cant really compare these results outright. But lets not totally throw out the test. It’s an indication.
...
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Watts, Amps, Degrees. How does Flash fair?
I did a test. A test to measure the usage of energy comparing Flash and Quicktime (native OS player).
Test Environment:
Macbook Pro 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo (early 2007) 3 GB RAM 128MB ATI Radeon X1600 Snow Leopard 10.6
Using iStat Menu’s as a source for the live values.
Starting Values:
CPU Amps: 4A CPU Watts: 3.68W CPU Temp: 58˚C
Quicktime:
Test: 45 second sample of the Iron Man 2...
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Vimeo moves to HTML 5 video playback, in Beta →
Vimeo is joining YouTube in the move from Flash to HTML 5 and browser based players.
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Flash on mobile devices, privacy disaster waiting...
If you have an iPhone think about this. How much personal data is on that device? All your Contacts, SMS’s, Call Records, Emails, Notes, Photos, Videos, Web History, Passwords?
Now what would happen if someone got access to all that information? Well you would have your identity stolen. All of that information is more than enough for someone to create a duplicate of you and start taking out...
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“The number of Lifehacker visitors without Flash installed enabled nearly tripled...”
– Flash’s Decline on Lifehacker, from 2006 to 2010 | Smarterware (via oliyoung)
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Ask a question regarding Flash and/or Flash on... →
Created a FormSpring account so anyone, especially the people opposed to my opinions, can throw me a question.
I’d love to see what you have to ask.
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Video 3.0, sans-Flash
The web has grown up in terms of multimedia. It started off with video files just rawly linked in a page, download to view.
Then came the in-browser plug-ins and depending on what you did or didn’t have plugged in you may or may not have been able to see what the website had to offer. I particularly remember stupidvideos.com and having to use the Quicktime plug-in.
Enter Flash. Although it...
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Flash, DO NOT WANT!
It has become the multimedia Swiss army knife of the Internet, until now.
Flash is just not needed any more. Nor is it needed to be supported by mobile devices. Here’s some quick points why mobile devices or tablets dont need Flash.
For most Flash objects there is an alternative. Exhibit A: revision3.com has multiple video encodings that dont require Flash to be able to use the site.
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