Display of Flash Content in iPad Promo Materials Likely Not Indicative of Actual Flash Compatibility

[chocolaterabbit]

Yeah, and I'm sure the British would have grown bored and left town on their own if we had just kept paying King George's taxes.

By that analogy then, Apple should then set up their own monopoly, and charge their own taxes.

Or perhaps their defiant stance will be a rallying cry in the Flash-free Web revolution?

If they really wanted to show Adobe they mean business, they should remove Flash from Macs altogether.

 

[gibbz]

For now though, Pad early adopters will need to get used to blue
Legos.
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I beg to differ. I can find images to prove my point as well.

 

[martint84]

 

[gibbz]

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Awesome image. I love it.

 

[LagunaSol]

*image begone*

So millions of ads use Flash? And if I don't have Flash I won't see the ads?

Sweet, sign me up!

(Thank you for making the point against Flash.)

 

[AidenShaw]

Yeah, and I'm sure the British would have grown bored and left town on their own if we had just kept paying King George's taxes.

More silliness from the small "blah, blah, blah" brigade.

Lots of talk, but in the end the Apple Pad isn't as useful
for its primary purpose as it could be.

Why? CEO ego. Nothing more.

I dislike the Flash ads and other excess, and have the
plugin disabled most of the time. But I have the choice
to enable it when I'm blocked from something that I want to see.

At this point in time, it looks like Apple Pad users won't
have the choice - they'll be blocked.

Thanks to the Big Brother in Cupertino.

 

[cmaier]

More silliness from the small "blah, blah, blah" brigade.

Lots of talk, but in the end the Apple Pad isn't as useful
for its primary purpose as it could be.

Why? CEO ego. Nothing more.

It's a strategy, not ego. You may not like the strategy, but so far Stevie has shown he knows what he's doing.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/blue_boxes

 

[LagunaSol]

Thanks to the Big Brother in Cupertino.

As an IE user and vociferous Microsoft cheerleader, you're one to talk about trying to control the Web agenda through forced standards (or trying to manipulate those standards).

ComicSansical!

 

[conradwt]

And maybe those sites will stop using the proprietary Adobe-controlled Flash formats and use open standards like H.264 and HTML5 to present content.

That is really what Adobe fears.

Apple would be wise to create a content creation tool to wrap up the raw video/audio into a HTML5-based player that can be dropped into existing web content. This is what Flash really brought to the table; an authoring environment that allowed content creators to add more value to just a video file (via skinnable interactive ubiquitous players, ad overlays, watermarks, full-creen etc).

With HTML5, you simply need to do the following to add video to a page:

<video src="some.<extension>" controls="controls"></video>

Now, when you mouse over the video, the controls will become visible. Also, you can use standards based technologies like Javascript to do even more.