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Flash has been dead tech walking on mobile ever since Apple passed on it after years of vapourware promises and getting nowhere fast with performance issues --

Flash has been dead tech walking on mobile ever since Apple passed on it after years of vapourware promises and getting nowhere fast with performance issues -- ones that still persist today on the devices that actually have a Flash player. Jobs especially was roundly criticized for his public stance on this, but in the end, he was proved right: Adobe never could get Flash working properly on a low-powered device.

soonisnow 15y ago
For sure the fact that Apple/Steve passed (violently so) on Flash made it mobile DOA, but is it possible the actual frame/second rendering on Flash 10.1 was actually better-performing than HTML5? These tests are from 2010 but suggest so.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWo19BcC7s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUWo19BcC7s (April) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFax1oYyBE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFax1oYyBE (September). Not so sure Steve was proved right so much as it was self-fulfilling prophecy (from the mobile deity himself)?
- watty 15y ago
  Flash definitely outperforms HTML5 on mobile and desktop: http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/ http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/
  - jonhendry 15y ago
    But which eats more battery?
    - gcp 15y ago
      The slower one, as the CPU must stay on longer. Not a good argument, hence.
  - gcp 15y ago
    The native Android browser isn't very good in JavaScript (not JIT? old JIT?). Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile outperform it greatly. That's the advantage of a real open standard: you can choose your implementation. No such luck with Flash.