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Making flash opt-in wouldn't solve the problem. The VAST majority of non-technical users will not know about or use that setting and will blame Apple for the p
by marknutter 17y ago
Making flash opt-in wouldn't solve the problem. The VAST majority of non-technical users will not know about or use that setting and will blame Apple for the poor battery life, not Adobe. It's a lot about saving face here. Apple wants to be in control of their own success, which becomes hard to do when you're allowing proprietary technologies to run on their hardware. Jobs points out his frustration with Adobe taking so long to adopt Cocoa - this is just him trying to avoid a similar situation on the iPhone.
Speak for yourself about the lack of flash on the iPad, I consider it a feature on mine. 90% of the videos I run across on the web on my iPad are youtube or vimeo videos and work perfectly.
- ThomPete 17y agoI am speaking for myself, who else do you think I am speaking for? Regarding making flash an opt in being a problem. It's a pure interaction problem. By no metrics is it harder than to turn push notification on and off or setting your time.
- ThomPete 17y agoBy all means who ever voted me down. Prove me wrong.
- vetinari 17y agoYou know, what draws most of the juice from the battery? 1) Radio, 2) Display. These two facts made VAST majority of non-technical users aware, that the more they use their gadget, the shorter the battery life is. Fortunately for them, Flash is pretty much interactive, it does not run in background and does not draw energy when the users thinks it is off. It is pretty easy for the users to comprehend that they were using flash and that's why the battery is empty.