Comments on: Will Steve Jobs shoot himself in the foot by disallowing Flash on the iPhone?

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Android set to surpass iPhone for interactive applications with Flash 10 — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:17:33 +0000

[...] my diatribe about Steve Jobs shooting himself in the foot by banishing Flash from his precious handset platform doesn’t seem nearly as far-flung. [...]

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Nokia gets Touchy-Feely with new Tube and Free Downloads | %tag% — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:35:50 +0000

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By: Dave Jeyes

Dave Jeyes — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:28:40 +0000

@flint Flash fixed to Adobe. Thanks for your input

I still have yet to hear how Flash would actually hurt the user experience on the iPhone. The double tap or pinch could still zoom and there would be a lot more alternatives for user interface.

As far as AJAX goes, I’ve been cheering the mobile browser developers to include full AJAX support for over a year. In fact, if there are good UI standards in place, then why couldn’t Flash be used in exactly the same ways?

Further, what makes anyone think that Google would keep flash out of their open platform? They aren’t even reviewing Android apps before releasing them? And since when should Apple ignore what Google and Microsoft are doing?

As soon as you let your ego get the better of you and stop looking at the competition, you give them a chance to pass you.

By: flint

flint — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:10:39 +0000

“Flash is gearing up to submit a flash player to apple…”?? Please tell me who this Flash company is? Have they taken over Adobe?…..
Give me one good reason why Flash should be let anywhere near the mobile web let the iPhone….no…. I thought so – you can’t.
Better still… shoot yourself in the foot dumbo.
Rotflol

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:44:48 +0000

I only hope that Apple grows strong enough to kill flash on the Mac, rather than let it invade and diminish the web experience on the iphone.
Adobe makes some wonderful products but flash as it is popularly used is bad in so many ways.
Developing open standards to do interactive graphics on the web will be better for the whole internet!
People who have Flash intro should kill them as soon as possible.
Any site that creates a UI in flash should be banned / boycotted by the community (most are unless they have needed content and there is no other option).
Using minimal flash in just the paces you need simple action graphics are it’s only useful application I have seen and it is the community that needs to extend html / xml . ajax to fill this need.
And flash as a movie-player simply needs to be stopped it is just like DRM in music and will die – the sooner the better.

By: bud

bud — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:59:06 +0000

Steve Jobs would shoot himself in foot by Allowing Flash.

Even Android is not going to be that quick to allow Flash.

They both want Ajax.

Flash should never have become a video wrapper.

By: lava

lava — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:47:01 +0000

By the way, Microsoft is boasting it sells 18 million Windows Mobile licenses a year.

Most analysts are projecting Apple will sell 40 million units in 2009. Even the conservative prjections are north of 25 million.

Meaning, Windows Mobile will not be a factor in what Apple does or doesn’t do.