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This article seems to miss the point. First, it starts off talking about the iPad and how Flash may not be the CPU hog its made out to be. It then goes on to s
by cpetersen 17y ago
This article seems to miss the point.
First, it starts off talking about the iPad and how Flash may not be the CPU hog its made out to be. It then goes on to say that HTML5 is more efficient than Flash in Safari. The iPad runs Safari, in effect contradicting their previous argument about the iPad.
Next, they say that Apple could allow Adobe to make Flash faster, all they have to do is open up access to the hardware APIs. Who exactly wants a browser plugin to have low level access to the hardware APIs?
Seems kind of ridiculous to say that something else is at work here. Does Apple want to kill Flash? Probably, but even if they didn't want to, they've got plenty of reasons not to allow flash on the iPhone/iPad/etc.