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Nobody in their right mind uses Flash for anything important. iPhone has, but I'd wager the vast majority of YouTube users watch videos in their browsers. the
by thechangelog 17y ago
Nobody in their right mind uses Flash for anything important.
iPhone has, but I'd wager the vast majority of YouTube users watch videos in their browsers.
the majority of online display advertising
Advertisers are the revenue source for innumerable online sites; they like Flash so it is important.
Re: uploaders... A native application...does the same thing.
Sure, but again, I'd wager that most people use the on-site bulk uploaders.
The point is that Flash is useful and easily accomplishes things (with nearly 100% market penetration) that would be much more difficult without Flash (building a native app, trying to animate ads across browsers).
- GHFigs 17y agoI'd wager the vast majority of YouTube users watch videos in their browsers. Yes, but what are they actually doing? They're streaming the exact same h.264 video, except using the Flash plugin as a (buggy, inefficient) decoder. they like Flash so it is important. Not to users. Users are the ones who actually buy and use the devices that end up viewing the ads. No user buys a device for a better ad experience. That's nonsense. nearly 100% market penetration This is not going to hold true as more people browse the web on devices that lack Flash. Such devices may not be the sole or even primary way of browsing the web for some time, but in terms of total volume of web usage, it is already significant, and will only grow. It will make less and less sense to target a web platform that can't be reached every way that people use the web.