Flash 10.1 consistently outperforms Canvas in frame rates, particularly on android in this impressive video demonstration. iPhone performance can’t be measured for Flash obviously, but Canvas performance is dire, worse than Android.
Steve Jobs legendary anger management issues would be sorely tested at the news that google and adobe have teamed up to not only allow flash on the chrome platform but to embrace it more thoroughly than any platform before. News also out today that web surfing rates on Android is on the rise as iPhone
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eWeek have published a list of things iPad must do to live up to the hype… considering flash is number 2, and so it should be!
http://bit.ly/a8wy8z
Interesting Wired article speculates that the App store will eventually lose its bite as HTML5 becomes more competent, and as mobile platforms abound.
In feedback a commenter asked why you would make a free web app when you could make a paid App store app. Some reasons are:
- Apple approval not needed
- Apple arbitrary withdrawal not
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The cheering of HTML5 boosters over the death of Flash is premature, and masks the reality that the web just got messier. Advertisers are at a loss, because there is no obvious substitute for Flash ads. Flash outputs as a neat closed box, with scripting inside it that can run an ad, offer interaction and
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People power against Flash may have fizzled so far (pre-launch of the iPad) but it sounds like some web publishers are down right grumpy with Apple for messing with the web. Its fine for Steve to move on from Flash, but breaking the ease of development and ubiquity of Flash means lost dollars for these
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10 days into our online petition about flash on iPad, it is time to take
stock.
- 138 signatories
- 19 followers on twitter
- 14 on facebook
- 14 via feedburner
Looking at other flash / iPad (and iPhone) petitions we have:
- 652 signatories at http://iwantflash.com/iwantflash-petition
- 39 (goal 100000!) http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/flashforiphone
- 212 members ”I want iPad to support Flash” FaceBook group
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Francisco Kattan, who worked at Adobe, argues that Apple will never allow Flash on iPad because Flash undermines the App store’s ability to differentiate the iPad as a device. Its a really good point. So do we give up petitioning Apple to relent and allow Flash?
Business is the underlying issue – if Flash stops the
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In a somewhat wordy article, “Open societies need open systems” BBC commentator Bill Thompson expresses why I think Apple in their current mode need to be saved from themselves. He reviews both Amazon and Apple’s high handed dealings and concludes:
“Apple and Amazon, like the priests of Marx’s day, no doubt sincerely believe that the world
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Great parody of the Steve Jobs launch thing… (embedded after the link)
John Gruber (major flash demoniser) helpfully linked to this great animation of the international space station construction progress – its in flash, just the kind of interactive feature it does so well that you will not get on iPad
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/22/space-station
A gaming betting site has, it seems, equal odds for iPad to sell, during 2010 between 3-4 million or over 6 million. At 3 million, that would be roughly “hobby” level, according to estimates of Apple TV sales, which are too embarrassing for Apple to mention in public. They must surely be hoping for more
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Amusing cartoon strip about flash on iPad. He’s drawn Steve Jobs as the adolescent dude!
http://www.foxtrot.com/2010/03/03212010
This is a really good site… we left our 6 year old on it, and he could navigate it really well. It is a whole bunch of informative interactive flash animations on various subjects aimed at kids… I really don’t think you could create brainpop on HTML5!
Update: brainpop have released a featured movie app for
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Club penguin is a multi award winning online game. Its emphasis on safety and creativity means it is many kids’ introduction to the interactive internet.
http://www.clubpenguin.com
Where to start! There is so much amusing parody material about the iPad on youtube. This one summarises it all, and is relatively underviewed for how funny it is. You’ll not take those unctious videos of jonathon ive and phil schiller straight again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKAm1OmdFfU
The first article is about how Apple is apparently struggling to get the content deals it wanted for the iPad, and scaling back its plans for the device, despite strong initial pre-sales. Flash is a factor here:
“Some publishers and TV executives are concerned the iPad doesn’t support Adobe SystemsInc.’s Flash video technology, which many publishers
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Tim Bray, new at Google is the kind of loyal Apple customer they really need. In a blistering attack on Apple, he decried the walled disneyfied garden they are creating, surrounded by sharp toothed lawyers.
http://www.techeye.net/mobile/apple-is-open-sources-sworn-enemy
Ars Technica ran a poll on flash and ipad. The results are somewhat confusing, but as far as I can simplify them down, they are:
Support/demand iPad with flash: 47%
Not interested in iPad/makes no difference: 31%
Don’t want flash on iPad: 22%
These are Ars Technica readers, the very sort most likely, I would have thought, to loathe
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Gizmodo published this gallery of iPhone screenshots to show how sad the internet looks without flash.
http://gizmodo.com/5492412/no-flash-on-iphone-gallery/gallery/1
And while we are at it, here is iwantflash’s page of sites that need flash:
http://iwantflash.com/sites-that-want-flash
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