Adobe Has 'Moved On' in Dispute With Apple Over Flash on iOS Devices

[JoEw]

iOS represents about 1% of the web surfing population. It just surpassed Linux on the desktop. It's insignificant in the balance, no matter how much Apple touts it as the "big thing".

And Flash works well on mobiles. Games do work, maybe not 100% of them, but enough, video sites do work too. Android with Flash 10.1 has proven to the world it can be done in a very acceptable way.

When HTML5 becomes the better technological choice, it will get implemented. There's no need to rush it in an unfinished state. This will only leave people with a bitter taste about it if you take away what works now only to tell them the new thing "will work sometime in the future, give it time!". You don't replace working options with IOU notes.

mobile internet and desktop/laptop internet are 2 different categories as i made it clear in my previous post so i am not sure why you are giving me 1 percent of browser usage on both.

My argument is strictly mobile internet and Ios has 56% of mobile browser usage as of august. So it is significant in the mobile balance.

And most games don't work because most require a mouse which a smartphone does not have. and clearly you havn't actually used flash on android because my friends droid keeps crashes when trying to run flash about half the time he uses it.

http://newteevee.com/2010/08/31/video-flash-on-android-is-startlingly-bad/
http://www.thevarguy.com/2010/08/23/flash-on-android-independently-confirmed-to-stink/
http://blog.laptopmag.com/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right

clearly im not the only one with this opinion.

Steve called it plain and simple flash is not meant to be on mobile internet it had its day on the desktop and it will for 3 or 4 years until web standards can do what it can and better. Sorry dude.

 

[linux2mac]

And most games don't work because most require a mouse which a smartphone does not have. and clearly you havn't actually used flash on android because my friends droid keeps crashes when trying to run flash about half the time he uses it.

Same here. All my friends with droids have issues when using Flash.

Not to get off topic, but I recall a funny epic android failure at the airport.
I was at the airport heading out on a business trip and the guy in front of me was not able to scan his boarding pass from his droid. He tried unsuccessfully a few times holding up the long line of people. Impatiently I stepped in front of him and scanned my boarding pass with my iPhone with ease on the first try. He was dumbfounded at how easily I was able to scan my e-boarding pass. He saw my Apple logo and looked at me and knew there was not much to say as he headed off to find a printer. That would have made a great iPhone commercial for biz travelers.

Another time I was at the gate and ready to board, and when the ticket attendant saw me take out my iPhone to scan my e-boarding pass she said that it wasn't going to work. She was astonished when she heard the beep of her scanner on my first try of scanning my e-boarding pass. Apparently she was used to seeing "third-rate" products running Flash! LOL

Why do people doubt Apple? Their products "just work!"