Anyone with a Mac knows that Flash on the Mac has always, and seemingly will always, suck balls. Currently it works a lot better on my Mac mini then it did on my pre-intel systems, but it's relative. On my MacBook it sends the fans wild, and on that Mac mini the arrow keys don't work in many Flash-based games. For example my kids can't play many of the mini-games on Club Penguin because the damn arrow keys don't work. Update after update doesn't fix this. I actually now have them run Firefox in Windows in VMWare Fusion, where the arrow keys work, but that's just ridiculous. Given all that, why are people surprised that Apple is hesitant to even allow Flash on the iPhone? Adobe doesn't care, and putting trust in them has not worked out even remotely in the past for Apple.
What I'm wondering is why javascript performance equals browser performance? As far as I can tell, all they are talking about is javascript. Is that the main factor in browser performance? I'm not saying it isn't. I'm asking a question.
Why aren't they serving these up to the iPhone in the Facebook app? I just looked at a Facebook video in the Facebook app on my iPhone 3GS and I still get the, "Sorry, Facebook Video is not yet..." dialog. In the ipod-centric facebook web page, the videos don't show up at all. I mean they aren't even listed, so I can't test them out there. Finally I switched to the full Facebook web page, and there, finally, I could see the videos. I suppose I just need to be patient, and use the full Facebook page for the time being. And actually I now notice that the full Facebook page works much better in mobile Safari - you use to get this annoying bar that would end up in the middle of the page. That's gone now. So yeah for that!
They always say that pornography is the first to jump into next technology, paving the way. This is interesting, because there are plenty of porn sites out that there work just fine on the iPhone... without Flash.
If you choose your products purely based on length of feature list, you're going to end up with a shitload of crappy stuff. Heck, I've seen USB card readers that double as fake vomit. That's obviously better then any USB card reader that doesn't also double as a party gag.
This notion that people are simply being fooled into buying Apples devices is interesting, but doesn't quite jibe with the customer satisfaction level of the iPhone, for example. The iPad we don't have the data for yet, but when it comes to the iPhone, the idea that people buying them have just been fooled by good marketing... that is the only reality distortion field in effect here. Meanwhile, all those iPhone users, you know the ones that have been fooled by marketing, they are all thinking... iPhone's great, entirely touch-based interface but with a bigger screen that doesn't require so much zooming in and out? Who let the dogs out?
If the new iPhone Opera mini browser is like what you are talking about... then ouch, you've got a lot to learn about mobile web experiences. Opera mini is easily one of the worst web experiences I've had in a long, long time. Astoundingly bad. It doesn't render anything properly, it's only marginally faster, stuff doesn't work like, um, a checkbox on one page I frequently visit - the one that says, "keep me logged in". Etc, etc. If that's the best experience you've had, you really need to give the iPhone's Safari browser a try. No, you won't see Flash, but everything else is awesome, and Flash has *always* sucked on Macs. It's not going to be any better on the iPhone - Adobe doesn't care. So... we need to move on to HMTL5 and put this bad nightmare that is Flash behind us.
You've still got a floppy drive, don't you, and one of those genuinely floppy ones too, right? Or you did, up until they took it out of your cold, dead hands.
Agreed that this is an advertisement, and agree that tablets have been around long before the iPad, but none of them are like the iPad, and the iPad is innovative in its approach, whether geeks like that or not. This alleged iPad killer is like past tablets, albeit with Linux. If this is what others have up their sleeves as competition, the iPad will continue on its merry way, appealing to a market that will actually buy the product, rather then trying to fulfill the wants of a group that has no actual interest in buying the product they say they want.
Except that the iPad won't fade away. Other then that, spot on - they absolutely are wasting their time with this ludicrous attempt at a competitor. OpenOffice? You've got to be kidding me. That just screams finger-based-input-small-tablet software right there. People are going to love fighting with that. I mean the ones who hate themselves.
People like to bash this thing, and the lack of Flash is a bummer, but the fact is that when I use the browser on my iPhone I think it works amazingly well... except that you deal with having to zoom in and out and being able to see everything. A larger screen would make this a pretty damn spiffy way to browse the web. I think it's that that's going to get people to buy it, but they won't know it without being able to try it out for themselves. This will sell if people come to the stores to try them out.
This a truly revolutionary car in that it requires a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. If your subscription runs out, the car locks the steering wheel and you lose your market savvy.
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Anyone with a Mac knows that Flash on the Mac has always, and seemingly will always, suck balls. Currently it works a lot better on my Mac mini then it did on my pre-intel systems, but it's relative. On my MacBook it sends the fans wild, and on that Mac mini the arrow keys don't work in many Flash-based games. For example my kids can't play many of the mini-games on Club Penguin because the damn arrow keys don't work. Update after update doesn't fix this. I actually now have them run Firefox in Windows in VMWare Fusion, where the arrow keys work, but that's just ridiculous. Given all that, why are people surprised that Apple is hesitant to even allow Flash on the iPhone? Adobe doesn't care, and putting trust in them has not worked out even remotely in the past for Apple.
What I'm wondering is why javascript performance equals browser performance? As far as I can tell, all they are talking about is javascript. Is that the main factor in browser performance? I'm not saying it isn't. I'm asking a question.
Do I need to fill this in?
Why aren't they serving these up to the iPhone in the Facebook app? I just looked at a Facebook video in the Facebook app on my iPhone 3GS and I still get the, "Sorry, Facebook Video is not yet..." dialog. In the ipod-centric facebook web page, the videos don't show up at all. I mean they aren't even listed, so I can't test them out there. Finally I switched to the full Facebook web page, and there, finally, I could see the videos. I suppose I just need to be patient, and use the full Facebook page for the time being. And actually I now notice that the full Facebook page works much better in mobile Safari - you use to get this annoying bar that would end up in the middle of the page. That's gone now. So yeah for that!
They always say that pornography is the first to jump into next technology, paving the way. This is interesting, because there are plenty of porn sites out that there work just fine on the iPhone... without Flash.
Anyone who thinks the lost 4G iPhone was an accident is fooling themselves. Talk about a free marketing windfall.
If you choose your products purely based on length of feature list, you're going to end up with a shitload of crappy stuff. Heck, I've seen USB card readers that double as fake vomit. That's obviously better then any USB card reader that doesn't also double as a party gag.
And a keyboard, monitor and desk lock!
This notion that people are simply being fooled into buying Apples devices is interesting, but doesn't quite jibe with the customer satisfaction level of the iPhone, for example. The iPad we don't have the data for yet, but when it comes to the iPhone, the idea that people buying them have just been fooled by good marketing... that is the only reality distortion field in effect here. Meanwhile, all those iPhone users, you know the ones that have been fooled by marketing, they are all thinking... iPhone's great, entirely touch-based interface but with a bigger screen that doesn't require so much zooming in and out? Who let the dogs out?
If the new iPhone Opera mini browser is like what you are talking about... then ouch, you've got a lot to learn about mobile web experiences. Opera mini is easily one of the worst web experiences I've had in a long, long time. Astoundingly bad. It doesn't render anything properly, it's only marginally faster, stuff doesn't work like, um, a checkbox on one page I frequently visit - the one that says, "keep me logged in". Etc, etc. If that's the best experience you've had, you really need to give the iPhone's Safari browser a try. No, you won't see Flash, but everything else is awesome, and Flash has *always* sucked on Macs. It's not going to be any better on the iPhone - Adobe doesn't care. So... we need to move on to HMTL5 and put this bad nightmare that is Flash behind us.
You've still got a floppy drive, don't you, and one of those genuinely floppy ones too, right? Or you did, up until they took it out of your cold, dead hands.
I can't moderate this, but if I could, +1 Informative. +1 Funny. +1 Bingo.
Agreed that this is an advertisement, and agree that tablets have been around long before the iPad, but none of them are like the iPad, and the iPad is innovative in its approach, whether geeks like that or not. This alleged iPad killer is like past tablets, albeit with Linux. If this is what others have up their sleeves as competition, the iPad will continue on its merry way, appealing to a market that will actually buy the product, rather then trying to fulfill the wants of a group that has no actual interest in buying the product they say they want.
Except that the iPad won't fade away. Other then that, spot on - they absolutely are wasting their time with this ludicrous attempt at a competitor. OpenOffice? You've got to be kidding me. That just screams finger-based-input-small-tablet software right there. People are going to love fighting with that. I mean the ones who hate themselves.
... for the comedy that is Episodes I, II and III.
Tell them that reading the message will enlarge their penis... which isn't too hard to achieve anyway.
People like to bash this thing, and the lack of Flash is a bummer, but the fact is that when I use the browser on my iPhone I think it works amazingly well... except that you deal with having to zoom in and out and being able to see everything. A larger screen would make this a pretty damn spiffy way to browse the web. I think it's that that's going to get people to buy it, but they won't know it without being able to try it out for themselves. This will sell if people come to the stores to try them out.
Note that I have the moral rights to the lower case j.
You mean like all those power-user-friendly tablets that have existed for years and are selling like crazy? I take it you've got a collection of them?
... that people stopped reading the NYT online.
http://pbskids.org/barney/
This a truly revolutionary car in that it requires a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. If your subscription runs out, the car locks the steering wheel and you lose your market savvy.
Most people who die at 50 didn't have alzheimers.
... don't take away the Hot Coffee, I'm fine with it.
It obviously means that people are getting smarter. But they are dying anyway.