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All true... except that the same flash app running on a non-windows machine will use more resources than one running on a non-windows machine. Full screen flas
by rauljara 17y ago
All true... except that the same flash app running on a non-windows machine will use more resources than one running on a non-windows machine. Full screen flash video takes up a ridiculous amount of resources on a mac, and an obscene amount on a Linux machine. Based on adobe's crappy track record with non-windows platforms, I have no trouble believing the reports that the version of flash they submitted to the app store drained the iPhone battery in under an hour, as rumors indicated.
Non-optimized flash apps are indeed a problem that Adobe can't really fix. But the problem is multiplied by Adobe's god-awful implementation of flash on non-windows machines.
- henrikschroder 17y agoFair enough. For comparison, it's interesting to see that there's a new "browser war" concerned with optimizing the javascript performance, and the results of that are pretty impressive and to the benefit of all. If Flash had been a more open standard and there would have been competing Flash players, we could have seen something similar there, a race to improve the Flash player performance to in turn make the browsing experience better. But it's proprietary, so the only thing that motivates Adobe is the fear of being marginalized.
- radley 17y agoI have no trouble believing the reports that the version of flash they submitted to the app store drained the iPhone battery in under an hour, as rumors indicated. What rumors are you referring to here? Or is this more unsubstantiated anti-Adobe gossip?