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Jobs Says Flash Video Not Suitable for iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on from the too-good-for-you dept.

Lev13than writes "Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said the iPhone won't be using Adobe Systems' Inc.'s popular Flash media player any time soon, saying the technology doesn't meet his company's performance standards for video. Jobs said the version of Flash formatted to personal computers is too slow on the iPhone while the mobile version of the media player is "is not capable of being used with the web." The comments come a day before Apple is set to introduce the company's plan for iPhone SDK, the software developers kit which will allow third-party developers to create applications that can work in conjunction with the popular handheld device."

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  1. Re:Not surprised by ncryptd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's much better on x86 -- it used to be absolutely horrid on the PowerPC platform. Given my past experience with Flash on non-x86 architectures, I'm not surprised that Flash on ARM isn't a high-performance solution.

  2. Re:Another way of saying that by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why is this a troll, its exactly what the problem is.
    My n810 runs flash - badly - its advertised as working which it does but it drops frames with current implimentation.

    iPhone/Apple users expect more and currently it can't be handled.

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    liqbase :: faster than paper
  3. It's the API, stupid ;-) by Kifoth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has anyone seen Flash's Actionscript lately? AS3 is a respectable programming language (Flame away :P). Considering that Jobs never wanted an iPhone API at all, if he lets Flash on the iPhone, he'll be opening the door to a rival API that he has little control over.

  4. Re:Not surprised by jcr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Smarter people have blamed the atrocious coding in Adobe's flash interpreter. There's no excuse for busy-wait loops.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."