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It is tiresome now in itself. It is a far more interesting topic to look at from a different point of view though. It is amazing how people will ally themselves
by weego 16y ago
It is tiresome now in itself. It is a far more interesting topic to look at from a different point of view though. It is amazing how people will ally themselves zealously when really the sides they are picking are corporate entities vying for future profit margins in one way or another.
It's kind of a holy war of pure capitalism in a way.
- icefox 16y agoExcept it isn't just between apple and adobe. I wrote a little browser called Arora and constantly had to deal with the pink elephant in the room that was flash. While my browser ran good on arm boxs, tvs, and random embedded hardware eventually those who were messing around with arora on embedded hardware would come and ask me how to run flash at which point my only option was to tell them to give lots of $$$ to adobe who may or may not give them something they can use (assuming x86 or arm to begin with!). On the desktop it wasn't much better. Flash would cause crashes, behave stupid and without the source it made things harder then it should have been. Not to mention memory leaks. I quickly added FlashBlock as a standard feature to Arora. Flash also prevented me from looking into serious process separation (back before it was big with chrome) due to the amount of work involved because of flashes dependency on a top level window. As a user I hate how flash uses memory and cpu. As a developer I just hate flash.
- jodrellblank 16y agoYou say that as if it doesn't affect me. I'm not against flash because that happens to be the stance I get after choosing my preferred corporate side, I'm against flash because it's a pain in my side personally as an end user and that happens to be Apple's side so hey hello Apple.