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Google is so invested in Flash at this point. Why don't they just take over/buy "Flash" with it's engineers from Adobe? Probably hard to separate them from the

by eiji 14y ago

Google is so invested in Flash at this point. Why don't they just take over/buy "Flash" with it's engineers from Adobe? Probably hard to separate them from the Air team and all the other "products" from Adobe.

TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.
- panacea 14y ago
  The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc. But fundamentally... Street View. I can't see how that will be delivered with high performance by HTML5 any time soon.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    WebGL or perhaps fiddling with Canvas. It's only a matter of time.
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    It doesn't seem that unlikely, street view is mostly a fancy slideshow.
    - recursive 14y ago
      It does some pretty sweet 3d-aware image manipulation. I wouldn't call that a slide show.
      - jiggy2011 14y ago
        On the client end?
        recursive 14y ago
        Yes.
  - falling 14y ago
    Street View already works in the WebGL version of Google Maps, with performance no worse than the Flash version.
    - panacea 14y ago
      Then I retract my half-hearted defense that perhaps Google is invested in Flash.
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    Which is why they're furiously working on MediaSource API (and it's been in Chrome for a while for those who pay attention to their about:flags)