Not iPad-ready: ebay
Featured Great FlashPublished April 10, 2010 at 9:24 am 4 CommentsBe inspired…NOT. Ebay on iPad – you see a big white space on the home page! There is of course, an easy solution for ebay: buy an iAd (Apple revenue cut – 40%).
Update: as of 21 April ebay have released a highly regarded iPad-specific App, to bridge the gap between the Flash-broken web version and the low-res iPhone version. So we see Apple’s happy online model online established, if a business wants to use the presentation standard of flash for its online plans:
- Option 1: budget to create the website using flash to target 99.7% of the web, and then find an in-demand iPhone OS developer to create an iPhone and preferrably a separately laid out iPad App, to catch the 0.23% and 0.03% of the browsing public who access the web on iphone and pad respectively. Note: if your flash developer simply converts the flash to iPhone OS rather than one of their developers re-coding it from scratch, apple will reject the app.
- Option 2: Alternatively, create your flash website, and find a (virtually non-existent) HTML5/Canvas developer to recreate any flash features, to a limited degree, using Canvas. Offer and maintain both for years to come, until the internet explorer browser fully supports HTML5, then drop the flash altogether.
Of course Apple could save the odd company out there with less development resources than eBay a lot of money and pain by just allowing flash on the iPad, but its not about your pain, its about Apple.
Thanks for posting this! It shows why FLASH SUCKS.
If you want to access Ebay on your iPad, it’s as simple as installing the FREE Ebay app, which provides a faster, more powerful access to Ebay than any webbrowser!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ebay-mobile/id282614216?mt=8
You guys are so lame.
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It’s not like Apple is blocking ad, ad networks, etc., just Flash.
And for the record 40% is industry standard advertising cut.
But seriously, it’s not cool to force a developer to have to create an entirely separate app (or change their site around) for your one platform when every other platform is already compatible with Flash. Why not just allow it on the iPad? It’s an added feature that every single other browser supports…
I like Macs and I like Adobe and I like Flash. Why can’t they just get along?
I agree, I read an estimate that particularly with the developer rules, one company said it would cost US$75000 on average to develop a flash app, and if they could convert that work for iPad, perhaps a few thousand more. But to develop for iPad from scratch a further $75000. Same development cost to cover 99% and less than 1% respectively.