RIP FlashForward
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Hombre_Lobo: "If someone chops a tree down using a nail file, is the result better than someone who used a saw?"
Your argument isn't considering the actual situation.
If Apple let Flash run on the phone, it would kill the battery (and maybe overheat? There's no fan in a phone!) and everyone would have kept buying Blackberries because the iPhone would have had shitty battery life. This is because Flash can often be (not always, but often) a resource hog.
It takes a lot of careful calculation and precision to release a mobile phone that is more expensive, nearly a decade behind in public adoption, PLUS is missing one of the most widely used technologies on the web, and still have that phone succeed. Not only succeed but essentially eliminate the competition.
Pretty impressive move for Apple. So what if we took a step back in terms of the functionality of the web? Two steps forward, one step back. It's the way progress happens.
- kind of agree apart from the eliminate the competition BS.fadein11