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Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself

Posted by timothy on from the how-can-I-download-a-computer dept.

AmiMoJo writes "MacBook Airs are no longer shipping with Flash. Apple spokesperson Bill Evans said: 'We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe.'"

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  1. Apple is against Flash and Java by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And anything else that is programmable and can run applications. Java and Flash can run anything, and that would allow Apple users to easily execute something without getting it from an Apple-controllable app-store! First they did this only to the iPhone, iPad and such, but now they're extending it to their real computers as well. Apple wants to diminish anything programmable. If they could eliminate Java and Flash completely, they would.

  2. Re:Damned if they do, damned if they don't by martas · · Score: 0, Troll

    i said i can scroll past, not have to, or always will.

    tits or GTFO.

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    weinersmith
  3. Re:Lies. by Americano · · Score: 0, Troll

    downloaded "an installer" from a website

    For fuck's sake, what do you think is happening when you type "sudo apt-get install flash-player"?

    Downloading an rpm or a deb package from a repository is - wait for it - "downloading an installer" from a "website". Your tools automate the installation process, but if you're typing "apt-get install" to install a package, it's not installed on your system already , and you're downloading it from a third party.

    Unusually easy to download and install, perhaps. But you are doing the same thing as someone downloading a .dmg and double-clicking a .mpkg file in that image - downloading the installation file, running the installer.

  4. Re:Lies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try to block another crapware - it's known as itunes. What? Oh... you are apple's bitch? Sorry, never mind.

  5. If Steve jobs had his own way by phonewebcam · · Score: 0, Troll

    iPhones would only be able to call other iPhones
    Safari would only run on ios/macs and only be able to visit sites hosted by Apple servers
    The country would install a separate electricity network which only Apple products could plug into
    Human ears would be surgically modified to only hear the patented frequencies that reformatted content from iPods sent out.
    North Korea would ask his advice on how to run closed systems.
    He'd remove all traces of the 1984 video showing Apple busting big brother.

  6. Re:Lies. by Americano · · Score: 0, Troll

    The package is not a preinstalled part of the OS, then?

    Thanks, that's really the only issue here.

    All the rest is semantics and "my tool is better than your tool" dick-measuring.