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Apple's Change of Heart On Flash

Posted by kdawson on from the platform-with-a-capital-p dept.

Dotnaught writes "In a blog post, Walter Luh, co-founder of Ansca Mobile and a former employee of both Apple and Adobe, recounts how Apple once promoted Flash on the iPhone then changed its mind because Flash didn't provide the optimal mobile user experience. 'I think that Apple came to the same conclusion I've come to — namely that Flash has its strengths, but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences,' he writes. Luh's piece ends with a pitch for mobile development using the Corona SDK, a Lua-based programming environment that strives to recapture the simplicity of early versions of Flash."

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  1. If Apple Really Cared... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If Apple really cared about empowering the user in the style, manner, and spirit of their legendary 1984 commercial, they would make Flash available -- or rather allow Adobe to make it available -- on the iPhone, Touch, and iPad, and allow the user to decide which user experiences work best for them.

    Apple only cares about profits and control these days, having become the very thing they once railed against.

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  2. Control freaks by heffrey · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why can't they let us decide?!

  3. Re:Flash is not designed with mobiles in mind by beakerMeep · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What a strange comment, you just make larger buttons for a finger to press them. The same way all interfaces work on a mobile platforms.

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  4. The optimal mobile experience for Apple by DrXym · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Is one where everyone buys their content through Apple's store. That's it.

    It's no wonder that Flash which acts as a gateway to a mass of free content from across the world might be considered "non optimal". After all, Apple has to think of the poor consumers who would be "confused" by all the choice that countless non-Apple alternatives would cause.

  5. Re:Adobe Flash will die not by twidarkling · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone who makes a site completely out of Flash should be _shot_. Repeatedly. In the face and crotch. If I'm using flashblock, I should still be able to see more than a site's copyright notification. Using flash to design a site beyond video is nothing more than ostentatiousness. First you use a little flash for an animated menu. Then you do a little more for a slideshow on the front page. Soon you're serving *all* your content that way, your site takes 30-45 seconds or MORE to load on a broadband connection, and there's a 10 second delay to navigate to a new area on the site. I expect that shit on dial-up, not a 3mbps or more connection. If you can't make a good site without Flash, fucking hire a professional or STAY OFF THE NET.

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  6. Re:Adobe Flash will die by chromatic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only reason Firefox can't have h.264 support is because they are 'making a stand'....

    That stand is, of course, H.264 has patent encumbrances which require royalties. How deep are your pockets?

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