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Adobe Officially Ends Flash Support, Recommends Uninstalling Immediately
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That is usually done with one of those video template softwares...
Please remember much of this was an Apple problem
On my PC I never had any issues running Flash content.
Even 2 screens full animations running at the same time and the CPU was hardly ticking over.
RIP Flash. In the hands of artists you created some of the most exciting and innovative online creative visual experiences imaginable. Today most CMS cookie cutter websites look the same. Fun times!
The bad thing about Flash's demise is that it was really easy to make content. That was, obviously, a good and bad thing depending.
It also shows there's a market for an easy to use tool that can create animated/dynamic content. There's nothing on the market as easy as flash was.
It also shows there's a market for an easy to use tool that can create animated/dynamic content. There's nothing on the market as easy as flash was.
It's true that on Mac it could modify runtime which would cause non-flash performance issues. Windows didn't seem to have a lot of performance issues but flash could be used to run code on the viewers computer of which one of the most popular exploits was enabling the webcam feed. A feature that paired nicely with cheap PC laptops implementing a software controlled webcam LED instead of a hardware switch.
It's a bit why I always had a bit of an issue with Apple fans complaining about Flash.
The problem seemed to be more about Apple decided, due to person Steve jobs reasons that Mac's would never run flash well.
If it were not for Steve, Flash could have run amazingly smoothy on Macs, much like it did on PC's.
Honestly were it not for Apple fans moaning I'd never of even thought about anything bad related to Flash.
It ran amazing things on the web, allowed people to create things they never did before, and ran really fast and smooth on my machines.
We all know the real reasons were Steve Jobs personal issues and wanting to make money from the App store.
But anyway, Steve went, then Flash lived on for another 10 years.
It's shame nothing has really replaced Flash despite all the promises.
It's all ended up as a money making enterprise as opposed to all the free games on the web people used to enjoy.
The problem seemed to be more about Apple decided, due to person Steve jobs reasons that Mac's would never run flash well.
If it were not for Steve, Flash could have run amazingly smoothy on Macs, much like it did on PC's.
Honestly were it not for Apple fans moaning I'd never of even thought about anything bad related to Flash.
It ran amazing things on the web, allowed people to create things they never did before, and ran really fast and smooth on my machines.
We all know the real reasons were Steve Jobs personal issues and wanting to make money from the App store.
But anyway, Steve went, then Flash lived on for another 10 years.
It's shame nothing has really replaced Flash despite all the promises.
It's all ended up as a money making enterprise as opposed to all the free games on the web people used to enjoy.
There's nothing as easy to use as Flash. Beginners could make decent games back then, not for profit but just for fun. Of course if you're going commercial, you build a mobile app nowadays. It's overall a better web now, but something was lost and never regained. The only popular web games now that I can think of are agar.io and slither.io.
Funny enough, clicking on all these examples of modern web games, Safari can't run most of them. And whichever browser can uses 150% CPU doing so.
Flash was free to develop for. You didn't have to pay for any software and despite being the most secure and lightweight option for 20 years exporting content to a competing format was simple and easy. It helped us realize that just because you could make content you should. For a brief period of time world was filled with nothing but high quality, secure, stable animated gold. You know how today anyone with $17 can today makes Hollywood grade YouTube videos? Well, back then anyone from an ad executive on the 47th floor in NY to government funded entrepreneur who prefers a non-roman alphabet could insert their vision directly into your home. You didn't have to visit their website as they could bundle their content into pages you preferred. It was magic in the hands of everyone! Had Steve been more willing to accept that you can't get hacked with flash we might still be playing genre defining titles like Myst.
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It's a very common complaint, and none of my other cables break, so I don't blame myself.
In 2008 I was doing lot of webdesign for one agency and for almost every web they required Flash. So I had to buy new machine with Intel Q6600 (first quad core CPU) to be able to make the animations.
On the Apple Discussion Forums users are routinely confusing Flash Player with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Angry responses want to know how they will open PDF documents without Flash. Others are ranting about what Apple intends to replace Flash with. No amount of explanations are accepted. This is Apple forcing people to buy new machines pure and simple, or so the ranting goes.I uninstalled it on my PowerMac G5, haven’t used it since. Do people or website still use it?
The typical user is totally ignorant of what’s happening or why. They only know that Apple has stopped supporting Flash Player and they assume somehow they still need it. Evil Apple.
To answer your question, there are almost no websites that still use it and those worried about losing Flash will not experience a problem.
The next big event will be 1/12/2021 when Adobe throws the kill switch embedded into every Flash Player and Flash content is blocked from playing. Then we’ll see who is actually still using Flash as the weeping and gnashing of teeth will be virulent. Those websites that indeed still use Flash will be up the creeks becasue browsers will no longer support it and Flash can no longer be downloaded from Adobe as of 12/31/2020. Any offers to download or update Flash going forward will be malware and/or trojan horses, period. There is no longer any ‘official’ Flash download and there will be no more updates, security patches, or anything else associated with Flash from Adobe.
Apple didn’t make flash. Adobe decided they wanted to ship this stuff to Mac users.
The difference in the games are huge as well. No one is looking to do a Columns knock off now (Simple with Unity/Bolt).
This quote is a stupid at the idiots that complain that the Commodore 64 is still the best computer because it was instant on. Flash is a resource hog. Quit comparing to other frameworks React/Angular are popular but no where near the plain HTML levels.
Like ShockWave, it had its day and Adobe made it very easy for developers to deploy it - meanwhile sucking up lots of info on users. Like that (cannot remember the name) early "html" tool - by Adobe that was amazing and cool in days of hand coding html - cool for using fonts, images, background colors, blah blah but when you were done editing/creating it the output was a grid of jpgs and/or gifs so that your page was a table of images! that was uneditable unless you had the software. I was hired to "fix and update" a website that used it and had to re-create it in plain html since I did not have the Adobe tool and couldn't scrounge it, meanwhile the client asking why can't you just type in new text? LOL. . Adobe did a lot of stuff good and bad - taking over Macromedia was not a good one. But postscript fonts (vector, not bitmapped) enabled so much.
Adobe in 2017 announced plans to end support for its Flash browser plug-in at the end of 2020. Now that it's officially 2021, support for the software has ended, and Adobe will begin blocking content from running in Flash Player beginning on January 12.
Flash's elimination should not heavily impact users because many popular browsers have already moved away from the format. Additionally, iPhone and iPad users are not affected by the change, as iOS and iPadOS have never supported Flash.
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs offered his "Thoughts on Flash" in a 2010 open letter, criticizing Adobe's software for its reliability, incompatibility with mobile sites, and battery drain on mobile devices. Jobs also said that Adobe was "painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple's platforms" and further innovation from Apple would not be hindered by a "cross platform development tool."
In the past, Adobe's Flash Player had continually suffered from vulnerabilities that exposed Mac and PC users to malware and other security risks that caused vendors like Microsoft and Apple to work tirelessly to keep up with security fixes.
Since Flash Player will no longer receive updates, Adobe recommends that all users immediately remove the software "to help protect their systems."
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As I recall, Macromedia's Director used Shockwave and what became Flash was the scripting tool - Director was for CDs and sparked an explosion of multimedia that actually worked (other then embedding dinky QT videos in a site - and lest we forget most of this was over dial in modem so anything that facilitated that for anything presentable was red hot.
ADC was not what you think it was.. ADC was power, DVI and USB in one plug for the Apple displays and all of the Macs with an ADC port also had VGA including the PowerMac G4 Cube. It was nothing like Lightning.
I doubt that since it's being actively blocked by browsers and Microsoft.
People trash apple again like they did with flash in 2007-2008 , but now about no charger and this fall about no port iphone
And after 10 years nobody will care anymore and everybody will be on the same boat
Apple is the only one who can make this bold moves and take the trash talking after
Thank you Apple no matter what other says
And after 10 years nobody will care anymore and everybody will be on the same boat
Apple is the only one who can make this bold moves and take the trash talking after
Thank you Apple no matter what other says