And with batteries having a limited number of charge-discharge cycles, who doesn't want their batteries to last longer? Do you want to pay to replace the battery after 18 months? Two years? Three years? Which is best?
As I see it, Adobe has no incentive whatsoever to make flash more efficient. It's like the General Motors of software - still cranking out gas-guzzlers when everyone else wants to go lite. And it can get away with this because it's not a hardware vendor: if Flash trashes your battery prematurely, then it's your problem, not theirs.
Until they feel some pain, nothing will improve.
Pretty much my thoughts.
If we had to do absolutely everything ourselves and make every decision ourselves then we'd still be living in caves.
Nice.
P.S. I'm tired of hearing about kids. Parents are responsible for their own offspring, not me and not Apple. Many of the parents I know had no clue they could even control the content allowed on their gifts to their spoiled offspring from within iTunes itself. In the end it's just a bunch of lazy, ignorant parents trying to pass the buck to everyone but themselves.
So what if you are tired? You are saying that parents must be responsible and less lazy, yet you can't deal with just going and browsing internet for your porn?
Meanwhile the holier than thou moral police don't ever seem to lift a finger to protect the environment or worker rights in China pretty much anything else that doesn't fit their never ending march back to the policies of the 1950's. So much for "Think Different" eh?
Apple having control over their devices is hardly equal to the police. How do you propose that Apple protect the environment and worker rights in China? You think Apple can tell China what to do?
If they (apple) issue a disclaimer that states their view and recommendation against it but still allow it you'll make a lot of people happy. Maybe put something in your Settings that can disable flash for everyone else.
Adobe has to make Flash player more suitable for mobile devs anyway so in time it'll just balance itself out. Look at the 10.1 release.
A disclaimer won't be enough. It would still be up to Apple to deal with the consequences and most of the people out there will still blame it on Apple.
And you can't let Adobe do their thing - we already know what happens - nothing, for a long period of time. Adobe is pretty much dominating the creative segment it works in and if we leave them to decide we will never have a working HTML5 and we will never get rid of Flash (it's a conflict of interest for them).
The 10.1 release comes
after the whole debacle, so for me it just shows that Apple did right.
That may be the case, but the web developers of the world are the ones who generally "run" the WWW. So if they are educated properly then they would have to develop around that. Forcing Adobe (or others) to model their programs to meet the dev's needs. Right?
I think the users should run the WWW.
Also, can the w3c regulate what the standards of Flash would have to be? Could they force it on Adobe to make the necessary changes?
I doubt they can. It would be imposing to Adobe how to do their work.
again where does apple ownership of YOUR device end and your ownership begin?? Do you ever own your device if OS level control of it is based on another entity?
You own the device. You don't own their store. It's pretty clear I think. Everybody is talking about control, but Apple is basically omitting features. Would you blame Sony for not having DOF on some of their cameras?
I think another issue is if apple is going to play moral police...
Again with those bad comparisons. The police is for everyone, Apple's products you can decide to buy or not. Is there another police you can choose?
Therefore I believe, in apples case, they should just give access to whatever and let US adult and PARENTS think for ourselves instead of having a corporation do it for us. There may not need to be a store for it specifically but SJ coming out an saying "freedom from porm" its like he is setting moral compass for something he should have VERY little control over after the point of sale.
How are Apple's restrictions not letting you think? Btw, you would be surprised how many people do not want to think.
You have the access to your porn. You just don't have many types of access.
Revolution means freedom? What are they teaching kids nowadays?
I always thought that revolution meant replacement of an established system; a radical and pervasive change; or coming full circle.
Finally some sense. It is Ryan that brought "freedom" in the discussion too and I see Jobs' "Freedom" for battery and "Freedom of porn" as a sarcasm.
You're suggesting that because i don't cut my own hair I shouldn't be responsible for my own moral policing?
Nobody is policing you. Watch all the porn you want on every Apple device. You have access to it.
The App Store doesn't have to host porn. Steve just needs to allow users the right to install what they want. Sideloading apps and allowing Adobe to develop a flash plugin are a start. Computers are an open platform and should be treated as such.
Computers are an open platform? That's whose definition?
You have the right to install what you want. You just can't, because it isn't on the store - but the store is controlled by Apple. Where's the problem? It's not about rights, it's about app/feature availability.
