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Steve Jobs: People Are Voting Against Flash By Buying An iPad Every 3 Seconds
- melling 16y agoThe Internet cannot be built around a plugin from one company. We are much better off taking the one step back then moving two steps forward. Soon there will be at least five good browsers that support Html5/css3. If we can get canvas support in ie9, html5 usage is going to exploded.
- radley 16y agoIt's like winning a race by disqualifying the champ...
- codeview 16y agoInternet is not built around Flash.It exists to compliment what the regular web cant (Device access, DRM enabled video etc) Have you tried running any content rich html5 app on an iPad? It rendering frame rate is so bad that it is unsable. IMHO, right now , Flash (while being a resource hog) is the best medium to deliver "engaging-rich" content on the internet.
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- zweben 16y agoThe point is that the iPad is helping, and will continue to help, HTML5 become the new best medium for rich content. Apple isn't always concerned with using whatever is best or most practical at the moment. Sometimes they want to help along less established technologies that have the potential to be even better.
- pizzaman 16y agowell the internet cannot be built around one guy telling us if we're allowed to watch porn. The internet is a nice space that belongs to everybody and it should stay like that.
- jacquesm 16y agoPeople are voting for flash by not buying one more iPad every 2 seconds. Really, you can't take a sold iPad as a vote against flash, besides there could be any number of people that have not bought it for the exact same reason. From a computer manufacturer you'd expect better logic.
- awolf 16y agoThe poor logic originates from the techcrunch headline... Not what Steve Jobs said. >“People seem to be liking the iPad,” Jobs said to laughs and applause. “We’ve sold one every three seconds since we launched it,” he added.
- jacquesm 16y agoCheck the title here: > Steve Jobs: People Are Voting Against Flash By Buying An iPad Every 3 Seconds If they attribute that to Steve Jobs then he has either said it or TC is completely out to lunch on this one.
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- dieterrams 16y agoJournalistic outlets frequently like to use a paraphrase of what someone said or implied as their headline. Some paraphrases are pretty accurate, while others are trash. This is the latter. Here's transcription from Engadget: ---------- > 6:33PM Walt: And what... we'll move on to the next thing you don't want to talk about. What if the market says 'hey it's important enough to us...' there's some great stuff out there in Flash. What if the market says it wants it? What if people say the iPad is crippled? > 6:34PM Steve: Well things are packages. Some things are good in a product, some things are bad. If the market tells us we're making bad choices, we'll make changes. We're just trying to make great products. We don't think this is great and we're going to leave it out. We're going to take the heat because we want to make the best product in the world for customers! > 6:35PM Steve: If we succeed, they'll buy them! If we don't, we won't sell any. And I have to say, people seem to be liking the iPad! (huge laughs and applause) ---------- Nowhere in here does he imply that people are voting against Flash by buying iPads. He's saying that people seem to be buying and liking iPads even though they don't have Flash.
- codifier 16y agoHTML5 rendering on iPad's webkit is an absolute disaster. So perhaps they are voting against HTML5 rendering in acceptable framerates.
- 16g 16y agoI bought an Ipad not because it left out Flash,Java ,Qt and those; but because i wanted to see what the hype is all about. I was just curious. I wasnt voting for or against anyone.
- 10ren 16y ago> Jobs: Adobe had a chance to get Flash on their devices, but came up short. > Jobs: this removal of Flash was simply the latest in a series of moves Apple has always taken to stay ahead of the curve. Seems inconsistent.
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