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Flash player is one reason why I got a Pro

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I cannot emphasize this enough that I am so tired of opening up my macbook to use the internet and get work done only to find out that I have to update Flash Player. I swear it is at least once per week. I open my macbook needing to send out an email and I get hassled with the update. I read somewhere that the reason Adobe updates it so often is because of advertising agreements with their partners trying to put yahoo and other extras on your computer so some engineer at Adobe makes the smallest adjustment and then an update goes out.

This alone is one big reason why I got an iPad Pro and why I do more work on it now than my macbook. Being able to turn on the Pro and just get work done without being hassled with bs is worth more than its weight in gold.
 
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macguy360 said:
I cannot emphasize this enough that I am so tired of opening up my macbook to use the internet and get work done only to find out that I have to update Flash Player. I swear it is at least once per week. I open my macbook needing to send out an email and I get hassled with the update. I read somewhere that the reason Adobe updates it so often is because of advertising agreements with their partners trying to put yahoo and other extras on your computer so some engineer at Adobe makes the smallest adjustment and then an update goes out.

This alone is one big reason why I got an iPad Pro and why I do more work on it now than my macbook. Being able to turn on the Pro and just get work done without being hassled with bs is worth more than its weight in gold.
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Why don't you uninstall Flash Player from your computer and forget about any hassles? That's cheaper than buying an iPad Pro :)
 
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macguy360 said:
I cannot emphasize this enough that I am so tired of opening up my macbook to use the internet and get work done only to find out that I have to update Flash Player. I swear it is at least once per week. I open my macbook needing to send out an email and I get hassled with the update. I read somewhere that the reason Adobe updates it so often is because of advertising agreements with their partners trying to put yahoo and other extras on your computer so some engineer at Adobe makes the smallest adjustment and then an update goes out.

This alone is one big reason why I got an iPad Pro and why I do more work on it now than my macbook. Being able to turn on the Pro and just get work done without being hassled with bs is worth more than its weight in gold.
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Just uninstall flash player from your Mac?
 
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hassle?

im not sure what you are doing with your ipp that is not going to need "to hassle" to get the work done... whatever work stuff i do with ipad, it needs alot of hassling - to do this and that, sending/sharing/copypasting/switching between apps/...
 
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mrex said:
hassle?

im not sure what you are doing with your ipp that is not going to need "to hassle" to get the work done... whatever work stuff i do with ipad, it needs alot of hassling - to do this and that, sending/sharing/copypasting/switching between apps/...
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Yeah I agree. I appreciate that you can do a lot with an iPad these days, but whenever people talk about their workflow vs laptop, there seems to be three or four more steps to every action, which is too much of a step backwards for me.

That, and simple acts like c&p seem to be getting progressively worse and worse.
 
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ccrgt said:
How can you use Flash on your iPP? I can't watch/use games that require a flash player on any iOS device...
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You can with an app. Download Photon Browser, I believe it cost a few bucks. It works, it's not glamorous but if you need flash it'll work. I know I've used it to play some Facebook games while away on vacation.
 
macguy360 said:
. I read somewhere that the reason Adobe updates it so often is because of advertising agreements with their partners trying to put yahoo and other extras on your computer so some engineer at Adobe makes the smallest adjustment and then an update goes out.
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Sounds like ******** to me. My search engine never changes. And even if the advertising thing is true, you're on a laptop... why haven't you set up an adblock?

I keep flash installed, and it hardly ever bothers me more than once a week, and I usually have super low tolerance for annoyances.
 
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What do you mean by "progressively" worse? I don't think copy and paste has changed since it first got introduced.
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It's never been perfect, but last 6 months, maybe since iOS 9, it's become a lot more common where you either simply cannot select text correctly, or the copy/paste etc dialogue just doesn't appear. Happens on my iPad and iPhone regularly across a variety of apps.

Doesn't justify it, but I can understand why text selection is a bit flakey on web pages that use weird formatting but when it happens in native apps it's unacceptable.

It definitely used to be more reliable, it's certainly been garbage for the entire life of my 6S+, possibly a while prior to that with ios8, can't remember.
 
yegon said:
It's never been perfect, but last 6 months, maybe since iOS 9, it's become a lot more common where you either simply cannot select text correctly, or the copy/paste etc dialogue just doesn't appear. Happens on my iPad and iPhone regularly across a variety of apps.

Doesn't justify it, but I can understand why text selection is a bit flakey on web pages that use weird formatting but when it happens in native apps it's unacceptable.

It definitely used to be more reliable, it's certainly been garbage for the entire life of my 6S+, possibly a while prior to that with ios8, can't remember.
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Ok, I agree copy and paste can be buggy, but in my experience it's always been buggy and I haven't noticed it has gotten any worse in recent iOS versions.
 
kupkakez said:
You can with an app. Download Photon Browser, I believe it cost a few bucks. It works, it's not glamorous but if you need flash it'll work. I know I've used it to play some Facebook games while away on vacation.
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Apps like Photon Browser and Puffin Browser don't actually use Flash on your device - they stream the Flash content from their own servers.
 
macguy360 said:
I cannot emphasize this enough that I am so tired of opening up my macbook to use the internet and get work done only to find out that I have to update Flash Player. I swear it is at least once per week. I open my macbook needing to send out an email and I get hassled with the update. I read somewhere that the reason Adobe updates it so often is because of advertising agreements with their partners trying to put yahoo and other extras on your computer so some engineer at Adobe makes the smallest adjustment and then an update goes out.

This alone is one big reason why I got an iPad Pro and why I do more work on it now than my macbook. Being able to turn on the Pro and just get work done without being hassled with bs is worth more than its weight in gold.
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You are aware that Flash Player is easily uninstalled right? Unbelievable if you bought an iPad Pro simply because of Flash.
 
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yegon said:
Yeah I agree. I appreciate that you can do a lot with an iPad these days, but whenever people talk about their workflow vs laptop, there seems to be three or four more steps to every action, which is too much of a step backwards for me.

That, and simple acts like c&p seem to be getting progressively worse and worse.
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I know when I read Viticci and his iPad workflows - I'm half impressed and half thinking why would I personally go to all this trouble. He gives his own personal reasons and they do make sense, but it's definitely not for me.

It is great that people who prefer iOS to the Mac can now comfortably do everything they want and need from their iPad Pro and iPhone. But I love my Mac too much to try investing much time in figuring out how I might be able to join those giving up on OS X. Given the way my MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad all talk to each other and remain in sync - I remain most happy having the best of all worlds.
 
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