Flash to be revealed on Monday?

[zap2]

Flash is dead. People need to give it a rest.

Um...no it isn't?


Hulu is a huge user of flash, and I've love for it!(Or release its own app where I watch music)

 

[Xtremespirit319]

Steve Jobs has a better chance coming out in the keynote in a clown suit then flash......

 

[Randman]

We don't need flash.
We don't want flash.

 

[javaGuru]

I just recently read in the wall street journal how Adobe was struggling to implement a version of flash for the iPhone. So, I would have to say that I seriously doubt they will announce that it will be available tomorrow.

 

[robothero]

We don't need flash.
We don't want flash.

Speak for yourself.



And flash is far from dead.

 

[kdarling]

Adobe demonstrated full Flash 10 on Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android phones back in February.

Release is slated for later this year.

Palm previously hinted that they intend the Pre to be the first phone with it available.

You can do a lot with Flash support, from cool mobile apps to just plain old video viewing.

I think the mobile apps part is enough to keep Jobs scared of allowing a full version on the iPhone, though.

 

[techfreak85]

if the iphone has quicktime X, then most likely it will have flash support via quicktime and not flash player

 

[robbieduncan]

if the iphone has quicktime X, then most likely it will have flash support via quicktime and not flash player

I'm confused by statements like this. Quicktime X (for Mac OSX) is built out of the effort to optimise, streamline and modernise Quicktime for the iPhone. Not the other way round. The iPhone already has what is basically Quicktime X.

 

[Carniphage]

The point of Flash...

...was to bring a certain type of "rich" interactivity to the web.
Flash also implements video streaming.

These are reasonable engineering goals.

But Flash was designed a very long time ago. It relies on CPU-based rendering. which makes it a very poor solution for handheld devices. It needs to be re-engineered so that all the heavy lifting can be done in hardware.

Apple and Palm should avoid Flash, as a way of putting pressure on Adobe to fix it. In the mean time, they should embrace the alternatives.

C.

 

[The Phazer]

Flash is dead. People need to give it a rest.

Dead like MMS was dead? Dead as in growing?

Flash isn't going anywhere. Most online video uses it, and content protection means that it's going to get more prevalent, not less (now Silverlight seems a dud as a competetor).

Phazer

 

[instaxgirl]

I don't blame Apple for not pushing Adobe along on this. Even on Macs, Flash uses far more CPU time than it really should. I guess optimisation isn't a priority for Adobe.

I'm not fond of Flash for this reason. All the animations and effects tend to annoy me as well, I only use it when watching videos and have it turned off on my computer.

So far I've coped quite happily without flash on my iPhone, I'd probably be more annoyed if it turned up than if it never did. Obviously, this is just my opinion.

 

[matttye]

As far as I can tell the best you can get on any phone is the Flash Lite.
Flash is a pretty poor technology. It's even worse for mobile.
If Adobe fixed it, so that primitives could be rendered in hardware, it could become something that mobile devices could use.

C.

Am I the only person in the world that doesn't have a problem with flash?

My phone runs a flash lite client and it works fine. I can access youtube, play games. It's not slow at all.

 

[twoodcc]

doesn't nikeplus.com use flash?