Millions of iPad buyers have already decided.
No they didn't they just took what they were given. Consumers are not creative enough to be in a position to decide anyting, that why they need both Steves to tell them "what's good for them". Sad.
Millions of iPad buyers have already decided.
But how else can I have my restaurant's wine list take 2 minutes to load while you listen to elevator music?
I don't know why His Steveness is brainwashing everybody to believe that Flash performs poorly on phones.
People sure get worked up whenever Flash is mentioned.
As a developer believe me when I point out:
* Developers don't care about the Flash debate directly one bit. It's about using tools that meet the needs of the project. All platforms, SDKs, IDEs, etc., have their advantages and disadvantages. It's hard enough to choose the best tools for the job, balancing short and long term requirements without thowing a lot of emontion into the decision. Flash is amost unbeatable in some areas, useless in others and somewhere in between in most. I won't even comment on Flex directly because I haven't used it.
* There are tons of misinformation in this area thrown about.
* The ability to develop apps using Flash will not reduce the quality of apps in the app store. Flash makes some things easy but releasing an app requires a lot of different skills. Flash only makes a few of them so easy "anybody" could do it. You're still going to need developer skills to release apps. There are tons of crap now and a small percentage of good to great apps. That's not going to change.
Have a look at this and tell me what's ordinary about it:
http://machinarium.net
That game is made with Flash, it runs on OS X (and can even be purchased in the Mac AppStore), Linux and Windows and if Steve Jobs would listen to reason, stuff like this could also run just as easily on your fancy little iGadgets. At least now, thanks to Adobe and not thanks to Apple, there is a way for developers and designers to also port their great work to your crippled iPads and iPhones.
By the way, Flash 10.3 runs extraordinarily well on the Samsung Galaxy S2. I don't know why His Steveness is brainwashing everybody to believe that Flash performs poorly on phones. But then again, the S2 runs with an OS that was NOT designed to restrict its users and it also has a fully featured web browser.
what unique features?
what unique features?
The problem is arises when script kiddies/web designers get the idea that they too can be app developers thanks to the magical WYSIWYG Adobe products... And I'm sure Adobe isn't too eager to set the score straight in that respect.
I really think there will be no problem. Mainly because various iOS app engines have been around for years so this changes nothing. I'm not saying there won't be crappy Flash apps developed by people who should not be developing apps. There will be. But it won't be at any greater rate than crappy apps were developed previously. LOL, a while ago a non-developer friend of mine wanted to get in on developing iOS apps. He knew some HTML and Javascript so his idea was to develop it using those and wrap it in a web control to make it "native". I agreed to help him with the wrapper if he could get the basic features of his app running in Safari. Needless to say, he was never able to take me up on that.
Sounds like Adobe has spared no expense to make 10.3 suck less. "His Steveness" has no incentive to wait several major releases out for Adobe to 'get it right'. I will say that on XP, I see my browser complain regularly about the Flash plugin crashing. I for one can't wait to enjoy that experience on my iPad 2.
I will say that Flash on my Tivo Premiere is dog slow. I am sure this embedded form of Flash isn't yet synced up with the improvements that came with 10.3, but given how much coffee I've been able to brew while enjoying Tivo's glorious HDUI written in Flash, I can hardly fault anyone having naughty thoughts about Flash running on a PHONE when I could launch my own Starbuck's franchise with all of the wait states generated by my Flash-based DVR.
Oh yeah, Tivo says they can't enable that second core either thanks to the fine engineering of Flash on Linux. Wish Tivo's execs had some of His Steveness' caution before basing their entire new Series 4 UI architecture on Flash technology. It's not been good.
This builds out native iOS apps, not Flash wrapped in some disguise.
You know just a thought - it would be nice to see an Android app versus a flash app for Android run toe to toe to get benchmarks on power/resources/speed etc. I say Android since well you know Flash not running on iOS etc...
"The reaction from developers to the new mobile capabilities in Flash Builder 4.5 and the Flex 4.5 framework has been absolutely fantastic," said Ed Rowe, vice president of developer tooling, Adobe
with poorly coded HTML 4
or
with poorly coded HTML 5
or
with poorly coded Silverlight
etc.
(don't confuse bad programming with bad technology)
You know just a thought - it would be nice to see an Android app versus a flash app for Android run toe to toe to get benchmarks on power/resources/speed etc. I say Android since well you know Flash not running on iOS etc...
If it's "cross-platform" then that means NONE of the UNIQUE FEATURES of iOS will be usable in these conversions. Otherwise, the conversion would not work on Android and Blackberry.
Hence, Apple's argument the first time. Apps wll be "ordinary" leading users to feel that it is iOS that is simply "ordinary."
There ought to be a disclaimer for these Apps.