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IPad/iPhone/iPod (iPOS) as Open Platform… Why Bother?
- radley 17y agoI posted this because there's so much conjecture about Apple's motives behind blocking Flash. I don't think it's that complex - it's actually really simple. If I broke any rules about self-posting blogs, my apologies; Neg karma all you need.
- tjogin 17y agoAdobe cannot be bothered to deliver a performant Flash plugin for regular OS X or Linux boxes, what makes you think they could do it for a device with just a fraction of the power? And I’m not talking about just video playback here, Flash demands boat loads of performance for the simplest kinds of animation and graphic display. Even if Apple didn't care about control, there would still be excellent reasons to not bring Flash onto their mobile platforms; because Flash is a crash prone performance hog that would suck the life out of the device's battery.
- pohl 17y agoWhat does iPOS stand for?
- radley 17y agoThe operating system (OS) for the iPxx devices... iPhone OS, etc.
- pohl 17y agoThank you. There's actually already an official name for that (it's currently called the "iPhone OS" even if it's running on an iPod Touch or the iPad) so you don't really need to invent one. I was scratching my head because I couldn't tell if the author was making a comment about it being a Piece Of Shite, or something about Point Of Sale terminals, or something else entirely.