February 2010
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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...
Feb 15th
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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...
Feb 7th
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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...
Feb 4th