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Funny thing is that since upgrading from a G1 to a G2 last week, I've gotten a definite sense that while Flash isn't end all be all, having Flash available make

Funny thing is that since upgrading from a G1 to a G2 last week, I've gotten a definite sense that while Flash isn't end all be all, having Flash available makes the web experience more whole. On my G1, browsing was a quick bit of text here and there; with the G2 I don't think twice when a site links to something like Vimeo. It just works. It's the web. I can't understand intentionally taking that away from yourself.

rimantas 16y ago
I don't think twice when a site links to something like Vimeo. It just works. It's the web. It does the same for me too. On iPhone. Without Flash. The web, indeed.
- commandar 16y ago
  Then choose any of the other embedded media scattered across the web that hasn't already catered to iOS. Point is I don't have to shrug my shoulders and say "guess I can't check out this content because I'm on a mobile device" anymore. I don't have to think in terms of real web vs mobile web, which I was certainly doing before.
  - rimantas 16y ago
    Then choose any of the other embedded media scattered across the web that hasn't already catered to iOS. The thing is that most of the cases where I may want to check something out is already made to work with iOS. I guess we think differently of what "real web" is. For me it is built on HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
    - commandar 16y ago
      For me, it's any content I may find interesting. I don't care what format it's presented in. You're making a technical distinction, I'm making a content-based one.
alexyoung 16y ago
I have Flash on my Nexus One and it's disappointingly slow. I'm not sure what I expected from it, given that it appears to under-perform on every platform I have except Windows (Windows in VMware + Flash is better than native Mac Flash, I swear!).
- commandar 16y ago
  It's not amazingly performant on my G2, but I haven't noticed any major slowdowns or the like. Then again, I've been pretty impressed with the performance of this phone in general; it just does not seem to suffer from performance lags at all. As somebody coming from a G1 that was on its last legs, it's been pretty awesome.

rimantas 16y ago

I don't think twice when a site links to something like Vimeo. It just works. It's the web. It does the same for me too. On iPhone. Without Flash. The web, indeed.

commandar 16y ago
Then choose any of the other embedded media scattered across the web that hasn't already catered to iOS. Point is I don't have to shrug my shoulders and say "guess I can't check out this content because I'm on a mobile device" anymore. I don't have to think in terms of real web vs mobile web, which I was certainly doing before.
- rimantas 16y ago
  Then choose any of the other embedded media scattered across the web that hasn't already catered to iOS. The thing is that most of the cases where I may want to check something out is already made to work with iOS. I guess we think differently of what "real web" is. For me it is built on HTTP, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
  - commandar 16y ago
    For me, it's any content I may find interesting. I don't care what format it's presented in. You're making a technical distinction, I'm making a content-based one.

alexyoung 16y ago

I have Flash on my Nexus One and it's disappointingly slow. I'm not sure what I expected from it, given that it appears to under-perform on every platform I have except Windows (Windows in VMware + Flash is better than native Mac Flash, I swear!).

commandar 16y ago
It's not amazingly performant on my G2, but I haven't noticed any major slowdowns or the like. Then again, I've been pretty impressed with the performance of this phone in general; it just does not seem to suffer from performance lags at all. As somebody coming from a G1 that was on its last legs, it's been pretty awesome.