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Oh please... this better be optional. If they force this into Android's OS, I'm gonna be pissed. I'm already happily living a flash free lifestyle

by jpcx01 17y ago

olefoo 17y ago
Congratulations on being Adobe's worst nightmare. It's quite a trick for a technology company to become so disliked that it develops anti-customers; people who vow never to use their product and evangelize the benefits of not using it. On the other hand this phenomena usually comes with near complete dominance of the market (vid. Microsoft), so psychotic MBA's might regard it as validation.
- illumin8 17y ago
  It's quite logical given the situation: Adobe essentially had a monopoly on browser-based plugins as it was included natively in Internet Explorer and bundled with every copy of Windows XP. In the years since 2001 when XP was released, they have enjoyed their monopoly status by becoming the defacto standard for streaming video on the web, purely because web developers made the pragmatic decision to go with the monopoly provider, rather than requiring users to download and install a different plugin. That they've squandered their monopoly status is very visible, as their features have been stagnant for almost a decade now. It's a shame that finally, in 2010, they are adding GPU acceleration to their plugin. They are finally caring about mobile power management by offloading video processing to dedicated sub-components. They really are playing catch up here. Apple made the right decision to keep Flash off the iPhone. Until Adobe even cares about GPU acceleration and using the h.264 decoding capabilities that are built into most modern smart phones, it is not worth having on the device. Of course everyone would love to have Flash video available on their smart phones, but until Adobe can prove that they can deliver a reasonable 30 fps and more than an hour or two of battery life, why should we put up with it?

Oh please... this better be optional. If they force this into Android's OS, I'm gonna be pissed. I'm already happily living a flash free lifestyle

by jpcx01 17y ago

Oh please... this better be optional. If they force this into Android's OS, I'm gonna be pissed. I'm already happily living a flash free lifestyle

olefoo 17y ago

Congratulations on being Adobe's worst nightmare. It's quite a trick for a technology company to become so disliked that it develops anti-customers; people who vow never to use their product and evangelize the benefits of not using it. On the other hand this phenomena usually comes with near complete dominance of the market (vid. Microsoft), so psychotic MBA's might regard it as validation.

illumin8 17y ago
It's quite logical given the situation: Adobe essentially had a monopoly on browser-based plugins as it was included natively in Internet Explorer and bundled with every copy of Windows XP. In the years since 2001 when XP was released, they have enjoyed their monopoly status by becoming the defacto standard for streaming video on the web, purely because web developers made the pragmatic decision to go with the monopoly provider, rather than requiring users to download and install a different plugin. That they've squandered their monopoly status is very visible, as their features have been stagnant for almost a decade now. It's a shame that finally, in 2010, they are adding GPU acceleration to their plugin. They are finally caring about mobile power management by offloading video processing to dedicated sub-components. They really are playing catch up here. Apple made the right decision to keep Flash off the iPhone. Until Adobe even cares about GPU acceleration and using the h.264 decoding capabilities that are built into most modern smart phones, it is not worth having on the device. Of course everyone would love to have Flash video available on their smart phones, but until Adobe can prove that they can deliver a reasonable 30 fps and more than an hour or two of battery life, why should we put up with it?