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For me there is one single data point that shines brightly through all this noise: we are well into 2010 and nobody has Flash running well on a mobile device. N
by ra88it 16y ago
For me there is one single data point that shines brightly through all this noise: we are well into 2010 and nobody has Flash running well on a mobile device. Not even the mobile companies that want it.
- barrkel 16y agoThat's because that's the misdirection. 3.3.1 is the clause that's important, but it's not about running Flash on mobile devices. It's about Apple being disintermediated and losing lock-in with their developers.
- ra88it 16y agoAre you saying that Apple vs. Flash started with 3.3.1?
- barrkel 16y agoApple's policy of banning Flash doesn't really bother me, but 3.3.1 really, really, does. Having Flash on the iPhone as a means of cross-developing apps is the most interesting way for Flash to be on the device, for me: it would mean a lot of creative and fun casual games would be more easily available for me to play. Video, I think, is a red herring; it's easier for web sites to switch to a different, HTML5-compatible embedding scheme than it is to rewrite Flash games in Objective C.