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7 million people each month get redirected to Adobe's passive-aggressive appeal stating that they "could totally provide Flash for the iPhone, if only Apple wou
by blasdel 17y ago
7 million people each month get redirected to Adobe's passive-aggressive appeal stating that they "could totally provide Flash for the iPhone, if only Apple would let us", because they browsed to a mouse/keyboard-dependent Flash game, or a page festooned with flash ads.
Meanwhile, Adobe has not delivered a full Flash player for Android or WebOS. I'd heard that there's one packaged for Maemo as a normal NPAPI plugin built for ARM, but Nokia+Mozilla won't ship it because it sucks.
- dirtbox 17y agoLove it or hate it, flash still counts for a lot of the entertainment sector's web functionality. Apple should admit that many of it's users miss that and will continue do so with even greater poignancy when the iPad ships. This will rage on until HTML5 is able to replicate and improve on every function of flash.
- pyre 17y agoWhich it doesn't for things like access to audio/video inputs (i.e. microphones and webcams). Though I have to admit that I find the prospect of configuring those through a Chrome or Firefox preferences interface more compelling than doing so through Flash.