The Mac Lounge forum: Flash on Apple iPad

Apple does not like Flash on it's small devices because the version of Flash produced by Adobe, for the Mac, is atrocious.
It's big, bulky and a resource hog.

Apparently Adobe were asked to produce something worthy of the iPhone, back in the day, and they could not.

Flash on a Mac is much worse than Flash on Windows.

The Day's of Flash are probably numbered anyway, with the advent of HTML5. YouTube have converted most of their library to HTML5 or QuickTime which is why the iPad/iPhone/etc can view YouTube video

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Not sure I see where the expense is coming from there. What do you have to convert your Flash content to, in order to use it with HTML5?

The lack of Flash on this device, along with the iPhone and iPod Touch, is nothing new and is not just an Apple thing.
The Zune HD has no Flash, the Palm Pre has no Flash, and the newly introduced Nexus One has no Flash also.
The iPhone demonstrated that there really wasn't a real need for Flash and a lot of sites that used it, created a version of their site specifically for the iPhone, with no Flash.

Flash is no longer necessary as most of what it could do can be achieved by using HTML standards or Java instead of relying on proprietary code like that from MS and Adobe.

Flash is on the way out and, just like old soldiers, will just fade away.

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well of course, note who is the major instigator of the "we must have Flash" movement and who stands to profit from it remaining.

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those things that they have challenged, they have either had removed completely, DRM, or have had them replaced with something that was a standard and not a proprietary system. (AAC)

Google is the one that needs watching when it comes to building themselves an Empire.

Remember, if there were no challengers to things, we would still be running DOS, listening to vinyl and have nowhere to post this thread.



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Sorry folks, but you're all wrong.

There's a simple reason... Well actually two reasons why Mac is looking to dump Flash.

The reasons ---> [mouseover] and [mouseout].

Apple is embracing touch screen and this seems to be the future for home computers. In the future we'll see 17" iPads with a full OS centered on touch screen technology.

Flash has no way of determining if a finger is lingering over a button or not. And since [mouseover] and [mouseout] commands are an integral part of "Lingo" and are virtually embedded into every Flash program.

There's the bottom line. Jobs want's Flash to die. And, like he says, HTML-5 does a better job on a lower processor budget.

What's going to have to happen is for all these sites who use Flash based technology to get off their arses and rewrite their stuff using HTML-5.

These are the same lazy programmers that have fought Mac development of any sort because they're too lazy to do the job.

Stand behind Jobs. He's doing a good thing for us with this one.

JusSayin


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"My question is: How hard is it to enable flash for a device?"

I don't know much at all about this, but ask the people at Motorola. Their Flash implementation on the Droid2 is awesome.

So the reason the iphone has no flash is that it hogs up resources? I understand why they would not have it standard, but what about having an option for people that really wanted it? With the understanding that it would run slower/not as smoothly as on a non iphone? This would let me access pages that I really need!