A Peace Plan To End the Flash-On-iPhone Fight

GMGruman writes "As the pro- and anti-Flash camps have hardened their positions, the editors at InfoWorld have come up with a four-point peace plan that would allow Flash on the iPhone while addressing Apple's very real concerns over performance, stability, and security. Readers can vote and comment on the peace plan, which InfoWorld hopes will result in serious talks between Apple and Adobe."

Comments

Not about Perf, Stability or Security

[courteaudotbiz]

It's about Profit going down the drain if Flash apps make it to the iPhone!

Missing options on the poll...

[Roogna]

Where's the option for "I support Apple not because I agree with their acceptance policies but because I honestly don't want Adobe's crapware anywhere near my phone!"
After all, unlike my desktop where I can easily -remove- Flash or block it with browser plugins, if Flash is on my phone then they better make sure I can remove it!

It's all about

[C_Kode]

It's all about not allowing unapproved apps to play on the iProduct. Everything else is mostly an excuse to hide the blatant fact. If it was truly about stability and performance, then iTunes among others wouldn't suck so bad.

Slave to 3rd party

[whisper_jeff]

How do so many people seem to miss the rather glaring issue that Apple has no desire to be a slave to a third party development tool. They've stated as much and it is a very real and serious concern. They offer features to their customers but, if a third party provides developer tools (such as Adobe with Flash) and that third party decides to take their time offering support for those new features or to outright not offer it at all then those features do not make it to the customer. That is a serious concern. In an environment where manufacturers need to provide every advantage possible to stand out from the other offerings on the market, Apple would be hamstringing themselves if they allowed Adobe, rather than themselves, to dictate what features do and do not make it to their customers. Anyone who thinks, even for a second, that this is a trivial part of the equation is not thinking clearly about things.

I'm surprised that InfoWorld completely overlooked this very real and very significant concern. Ah, who'm I kidding?... I'm not surprised at all... sigh...

Re:The last straw...

[whisper_jeff]

Bye. Can I have your gold?

Gordon

[david.given]

...is a Flash runtime written in Javascript, using HTML5 to do the rendering. It runs purely in the web browser. It runs on the iPhone. It's still pretty basic, but looks promising. Running the demos in Chromium on Linux doesn't appear to show much difference in speed --- of course, those demos have been carefully chosen to work.

It claims to support SWF1 and a lot of SWF2. Right now I believe we're on SWF9, so there's a long way to go, but it does show that the approach works.

race condition

[Junior J. Junior III]

In one thread, I have this going on:

while (Flash.Sucks)
{
     Developer.Bitch();
     Developer.Moan();
     Developer.Complain();
}

While in another thread, I have:

while (Apple.IsBastards)
{
     Developer.Bitch();
     Developer.Moan();
     Developer.Complain();
}

These threads are deadlocked in a race condition, and meanwhile, most Users have absolutely no idea what's going on.  Surprisingly few of them even seem to care.