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Google embraces Flash for Chrome

Featured flash/ipad FAQPublished March 31, 2010 at 7:56 am No Comments

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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Is it pointless to petition Apple about Flash?

flash/ipad FAQ iPad-Flash NewsPublished March 14, 2010 at 10:01 pm 2 Comments

Pointlessness is probably the number one response of people who decide not to sign our petition. And I accept that, despite the arguments below, it could well indeed prove pointless.  However, there is enough risk about what Apple are doing with the iPad that I believe it is worth trying to make a stink about
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Is Adobe or Apple to blame for bad Flash performance?

flash/ipad FAQ iPad-Flash NewsPublished March 10, 2010 at 11:29 pm No Comments

A number of people argue that Apple is deliberately holding out providing Adobe with information that would allow hardware acceleration that would improve Flash performance on Safari Mac/iPhone/iPad.  Testing on Google Chrome on Windows, for example, shows that the latest flash player is much less of a resource hog than HTML5 for video.  The possibility
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HP slate demo – a taste of how much iPad misses

flash/ipad FAQ iPad-Flash NewsPublished March 10, 2010 at 12:48 am No Comments

Seeing the demo of the HP slate on YouTube shows how much flash could bring to iPad.  Apple probably don’t want you using photoshop.com, but we are the (potential) customers, and we should demand it!  And see him fill in the NYTimes crossword using flash!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p-RZAwQq0E

Would Flash work on a touch screen?

flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 11:18 pm No Comments

A common misconception is that Flash requires a mouse to work.  It can be programmed that way, but other touch screen devices that support flash find in practise this is a non-issue. Its analysed in detail here
MikeChambers.com – on flash touch screen

Can I install flash on iPad?

Featured flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 7:22 am No Comments

No!  Apple don’t care, you get no flash!  As this recreated visualisation clearly shows, flash would break the iPad.

Is Flash too buggy for iPad?

flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 5:15 am No Comments

Debate rages among the techorati about whether Flash is too buggy and deserves to fail.  Hopefully the scare of Apple’s cold shoulder will encourage Adobe to improve it.  The fact is that people love flash, and it does not crash so much that it hampers its success. It is a reason to possibly choose to
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Has Flash been replaced by HTML5?

flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 5:06 am No Comments

HTML5 is a new standard that will handle a lot of the animation etc. effects that have, until now, only been possible using Flash.  No doubt, over time, Flash will decline. But today, Flash remains the web multimedia standard.  Much of the best web content is in Flash and will be for some years.

Is Flash a CPU hog?

flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 4:34 am No Comments

Technically minded people often hate flash because they say it uses too much computing power (cpu = central processing unit) We think that this is irrelevant. People who hate Flash can block it. Give us the choice, Apple!
In this article informal research seemed to show that, in some circumstances, safari (the browser
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Why won’t Apple allow flash on iPad?

flash/ipad FAQPublished March 9, 2010 at 4:00 am No Comments

I don’t think apple can honestly advertise iPad as providing the best internet surfing experience without Flash. Apple say that Flash will not work properly on the iPad – it uses up the battery too fast, etc. If this is truly the case, then the iPad is a pretty flawed design.  We had a five
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