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.'"

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Re:Logic?

[4phun]

@ Namarrgon
I feel your pain with flash on the Android, I really do.

My choice is to ignore any vendor who insists on using Adobe flash instead of moving on to HTML5.

250 million users who have already demonstrated they are interested in quality and have disposable income by buying Apple mobile devices are far too many too lose in this down economy just to have disposable old timers in IT who insists on using Adobe flash.