Adobe fights back
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Adobe made a very weak argument establishing these ideas within the ad campaign. It seemed like a "last stand" or a "cry for help". The only great point I saw on the "list of things Adobe loves" was the established community of Flash developers. These are people who work for companies who have based their entire business on one particular technology, despite any negative impacts it may have in the future. A bit ignorant and stubborn however many are already comfortable and set in their ways.
Flash was always a virtual simulator of what the web couldn't do, and now the web will soon do what Flash can do but better. Why keep using Flash despite its negative impacts? Problem is that people always knew the iPhone never supported Flash and there was always hope that it would for over the past 3 years. Now the iPad comes out...
Problem is that the portable smartphone, in order to continue improvements has to solve many issues and Flash doesn't solve any of them. Battery life is already an issue. Often finding myself with 1% of battery life, having barely used video, but alot of web use, but if my web was flash based.... I would have been cut off hours ago.
So in the end, Flash doesn't do anything good for the future of mobile. In the Adobe ad, not one mention of the word "mobile". Devices yes, mobile no. Flash will keep on the desktop, and when these battery issues, hard drive space and memory issues are solved, they might port over a version of Flash.
Let the other mobile companies include Flash on their phones, but putting millions of dollars on the line for a product, that is downgraded by Flash as it's users will burnout twice as fast. Who will they blame? Not Flash, cuz the consumer will not know. They'll blame the device itself, "This phone sucks because I only get 2 hours on it!". They're not going to say, "ahh! I only got 2 hours, but it was worth it for all the freedom of Flash I got". The user could not know the difference between a h.264 video and a flash video that hogged up twice the energy, and then again blame their mobiles.
- "and now the web will soon do what Flash can do but better"
care to explain how?georgesIII - basically more features added to what Flash can already accomplish.********
- It'll also do it better than Flash because Flash does not work on iPhone besides new 3D transitions + video effects********
- "and now the web will soon do what Flash can do but better"