Flash is back?
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That's a ridiculous argument. That's like saying if Ferrari didn't put cup holders in their cars and you bought one, it means you don't like cup holders.
All the large touchscreens in my industry are made with Flash. Why? Because HTML5 is still inadequate. Flash is fast, efficient, reliable and self contained.
Jobs made a brilliant business decision and forced everyone to build apps, which Apple kindly takes 30% of. He knew his leverage, he knew what the iPhone could be and he leveraged that position for every damn dime. Great for Apple shareholders (and you mono), but lousy for the rest of the world.
As we all know, Apple does not play nicely with anyone else. I tip my hat to him for his power move and the cash it brought Apple, but it was at the cost of the user.
- No, it's more like if ferrari decided to build a car that you couldn't drive on 60% of the roads being built and didn't do anything to correct it.hereswhatidid
- anything to correct it.hereswhatidid
- huh? 60%? Wha? Now you are just trying to be confusing :-)formed
- The extremely short battery life that Flash would have caused would have cost users more.evilpeacock
- 60% = rough percentage of mobile devices unable to to play flashhereswhatidid
- More like 90%, Adobe doesn't ship it on Android anymoreanimatedgif
- At the time, when the iPhone was released, Flash ran on anything except the iPhonemonospaced