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Flash On Android Is 'Shockingly Bad'
Hugh Pickens writes "Ryan Lawler writes on GigaOm that although many have touted the availability of Flash on Android devices as a competitive advantage over Apple's mobile devices, while trying to watch videos from ABC.com, Fox.com and Metacafe using Flash 10.1 on a Nexus One over a local Wi-Fi network connected to a 25-Mbps Verizon FiOS broadband connection, mobile expert Kevin Tofel found that videos were slow to load, if they loaded at all, leading to an overall very inconsistent experience while using his Android device for video. 'While in theory Flash video might be a competitive advantage for Android users, in practice it's difficult to imagine anyone actually trying to watch non-optimized web video on an Android handset,' writes Lawler. 'All of which makes one believe that maybe Steve Jobs was right to eschew Flash in lieu of HTML5 on the iPhone and iPad.'"
You have two choices:
1) Have flash not work
2) Have flash not work *and* cause your device to eat battery, slow to a crawl and heat up.
Which is a better choice?
So instead of getting a consistent web experience you're basically deciding to play russian roulette with Flash content?
Brilliant.
It just works.
Except when the fucking browser crashes.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Ick. You consider that as an advantage?
Content owners wont just give you stuff for free. If they cant force you to watch ads (like every online TV show does) they just wont put the stuff for online viewing. It's a sad truth. Note I'm not talking about long commercial breaks, just one add twice per video like we already see while watching shows in Hulu, YouTube or TheDailyShow.com (love that one and never watched a show on TV)
Support for deep linking was with AJAX since day 1. Not so for Flash...it was added later, which is why Flash apps have developed a rich tradition of not providing this capability while web 2.0 apps built with other technologies almost always do.
And I'd also prefer that a single company not dictate the language of web content, thanks.
Flash sucks.
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.