Now that SJ is no longer with us....Flash?
 

Now that Steve Jobs is gone, and he seemed to be the one who unilaterally said NO to Flash on iPhones/iPads, do you think that stance will change with Tim Cook at the Apple helm?

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Nope.

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Likely Adobe will morp Flash into something that will show up on Apple equipment. Flashbulb?

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I think Flash is on the way out. Won't disappear tomorrow, but the growing trend seems to be HTML5. Steve kept it away long enough that HTML5 got a foothold and will be the future standard. Tim Cook won't sully the memory of His Steveness by reversing that policy.

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Having used several Android devices I can say that flash on them SUCKS! 1st thing I always did was turn it off in browser (think it was disable plugins)....

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The past style of Flash won't be supported on Apple products and I'm guessing most mobile platforms will drop any support they have. Several months ago I saw an interesting posting that seemed to sum up the problems with Flash. The basics were that it is power hungry, one of the leading sources of viruses/infections on computers and not optimized for a touch interface (requires the precision of a mouse).

I believe Adobe is trying to reduce the power and virus issue by releasing a new developer package this last month that will have the application run on the websites server instead of the mobile device. Essentially, the device will just play back the content thus requiring less processor overhead and reducing the power requirement. I would also think this reduces the chance of a virus/infection.

Whether a flash application is optimized for a touch interface, is up to the developer. The argument for flash is that so many sites have it. But many of those sites are not using an interface optimized for touch. So, even if you could run the flash program, you're like a bull in a china shop trying to interact with the interface.

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Agreed, Flash is a dying technology.

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(Translation - Apple is perfect and sees no reason to change in spite of the fact that their visionary is gone). Signed, Argon.

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Flash is a resource hog and is un-workable in mobile platform. Jobs saw that and now so is everyone else. HTML 5 is where mobile video is going. Only the idiots at Adobe are clinging to it.

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And, of course, consumers who want their CURRENT websites to appear properly.
But they don't seem to matter.

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Seems to run fine on Android devices as well as the PlayBook.

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There you go again. Never let truthful comments get in the way of fanboys.

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Actually it doesn't, not on Android anyway.

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Pot, meet kettle hahahaha

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Please tell me how it doesn't. I have been using Android devices for about 18 months now and never had any issues with Flash on it. I would love to hear your opinion of why it doesn't work well on Android.

Re: Now that SJ is no longer with us....Flash?
 

Well it isn't on Windows Phone 7 and that's his current fascination.

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To the contrary - I use several different devices and would like to see Flash available on all of them. I don't flip flop (need references to your Apple Rules posts) when the newest thing comes along.

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Actually so do I. I have a WP7, and iPad, my old iPhone 4 which I used for wifi browsing around the house. I have both a Windows PC and 2 Macs. I don't miss Flash at all, and as more and more non Flash phones and tablets come to market, websites will phase out Flash completely.

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I agree with you, but that would be in 3 - 5 years time ;)

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Reality gets in the way of fantasy all the time.
Web sites are VERY slow to adopt new technologies.

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I'm thinking he's looking at it as just an arithmetic thing. Windows Phone 7 has to be better than Apple iPhone 4S, right? :? Android seems to go through the revisions quicker, so when we get to Android 8 I predict he'll shift again - unless Windows Phone 8 comes out first. After all, he's already preparing - has proclaimed himself an expert on whether or not Flash runs on Android. ;-)

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Well know it alls, it seems even Adobe sees the light on the wall and is stopping development of mobile Flash.

Adobe to stop new development on mobile Flash Player | Android Central

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Finally. Maybe this whole "Flash is awesome" junk can finally be put to bed.

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And now for a bit of reality. Yesterday I started the renewal process for my Texas PE and while I was going around the Texas Professional Engineers Board website I noticed that they now have videos of recent board meetings. Guess what format was used? Thats right, Adobe Flash.

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So the Texas PEB still uses Flash... what exactly does that mean for the rest of us and what does that have to do with Flash for mobile devices being discontinued?

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All that means is the webmaster is lazy and either doesn't know any better or simply doesn't care. Flash is on the way out. Whether of not websites continue to use it depends on how with it they are and how much they care about their viewers.

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Fantasy Land.

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This is a recent change. Likely the board did a survey and determined that Flash was the least worst option. I think they used to use Realplayer. The Texas Electricians Board still does.

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The writing on the wall has been there for awhile. When Jobs said he wasn't supporting it on the wildly popular iphone and ipad, it was over for Flash. With more and more people accessing the web, ONLY on portable device now a days, Flash was doomed. Adobe just confirmed what many had already known was going to happen.

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Ouch. I didn't realize that anyone still uses that junk.

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Remember I am talking about reality. Reality is real world marginal users of techology, not the educated. What I find interesting is that the Apple video product is also not used as much as expected. I wonder what SJ thought about that.

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I think this thread can officially be closed!

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Reality based on the website of the Texas PEB? Really? Seems like such a limited scope to prove that "reality" still uses RealPlayer and Flash.

What Apple video product?

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...good enough reason to leave it open.

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QuickTime. How quickly they forget.

Another source of amusement is that Apple has bribed their management to stay with stock I think until 2016. If things were so wonderful why the bribes?

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LOL 8-)

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A lot of people absolutely hate Quicktime. I've seen plenty of posts on the net by people saying they won't use iTunes as long as it requires you to download Quicktime also. I remember when QT used to always hijack your file associations, making itself the default for many file types.

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True, in it's own way QT, the super duper Apple product is just as crappy as Flash. My point is that some of the more inert users of this forum seem to have blinders on.

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So you couldn't just say "QuickTime?" Odd. Forget? No. There are other Apple apps that I would call "video products" long before I would think about QuickTime.

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Blinders? Where is this even coming from, and what does QuickTime have to do with hating Flash?

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Not directed at you. Question: What is both noble and inert?

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When did I ever mention Quicktime?? Thought this was about Flash??

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Ah... got it.

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adobe is killing mobile flash due to too many hardware variations ..... and html5....

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You can say this as many ways as you want to try to convince yourselves that it isn't true... but in the end it was iOS that destroyed Flash Mobile.

Lack of iOS support forced Adobe's hand and pushed them to focus on HTML5.

While Adobe has always shown interest in HTML5, there is no way Flash Mobile would have been abandoned if Apple supported it.

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100% correct!