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Apple teams up with Adobe for iPhone Flash

**** flash and give me a god damn landscape keyboard and copy/paste. mms if ur feeling really nice.

and a different service provider.
 
fleshman03 said:
I'd rather have it just built into Safari instead of a plug in or yet another app.
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the issue there is that i want it as an opt-in. i don't care to have flash banners or videos loading. at least with a stand alone app, it can save my battery and resources (why flash sucks on the desktop).
 
Too many of you folks seem to forget that the iPhone is a "phone" first and not a handheld computer. You "kids" seem to have way too much time (and no social life to compensate) to desire such things.

Battery life sans YouTube is already barely acceptable. Let's add Flash and suddenly, you folks that have so passionately protested to have it will now start whining as to why battery life has deteriorated.

Got to make an emergency 911 call? Oops... I guess you shouldn't have been watching that Flash animation for the past 30 minutes.

But you will rationalize that the blame does not fall on you but on Apple so I'll be waiting for Apple to be sued yet again.

Complain as you will, but I for one am very happy that Apple does not listen to you folks. The 10's of million of units sold shows that most people really, truly do not care about these "missing" features.
 
Yeah I can't wait to have all those flash based ads slow down my web page loading over the 3g network. Now I see why a rumor of a multi-core iphone came about. You need that extra multi-tasking just to handle all the flash based ads. :D Bring on the new iphone 3G multi-core G5 with Blu-ray :eek:
 
Song and dance

Heard this song and dance before. Nothing new for the iPhone rumor world.
 
vandlism said:
the issue there is that i want it as an opt-in. i don't care to have flash banners or videos loading. at least with a stand alone app, it can save my battery and resources (why flash sucks on the desktop).
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I feel that flash would be largely useless if it isn't integrated into Safari. I think the way Apple will go with this is to add a Flash toggle to Settings > Safari like the Plug-Ins toggle. That way you can have it on when you want and off when you don't.
 
QuarterSwede said:
I feel that flash would be largely useless if it isn't integrated into Safari. I think the way Apple will go with this is to add a Flash toggle to Settings > Safari like the Plug-Ins toggle. That way you can have it on when you want and off when you don't.
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That would be great!
 
I see that no one can give a good example as to why the iPhone should support Flash. All I see is "FINALLY!"... Finally what? What will this enable you to do when you get flash? How would this benefit you in a way that a native app can't?
 
Flash Ads

All you people moaning about Flash ads, please give some examples of sites you are going to that are so intolerable? I went to 3 sites at random (gamespot, cnn and national enquirer!) and found the ads to be quite sedate in all cases. In fact, the most in-your-face ad I've seen was on Mac Rumors.

I'll grant you that there was a period of incredibly annoying flying Flash ads, but that was like 5 years ago, and you can blame AJAX for those as much as Flash because AJAX enabled the layered DIVs that made them possible. Anyway, people aren't doing those anymore, except maybe on the porn sites you like to visit.

Ads are, by definition, obnoxious. That's the price you pay for the free content. Get over it. Frankly, I find search ads -- those interspersed among legit search results -- to be much more annoying than Flash banners. And I'm going to be happy to finally have Flash on the iPhone so I can access more videos, games and RIAs.
 
such big things here? maybe the interactions in Flash are not easy to process by cellphone, such as huge streaming videos. since iphone has the best-ever cpu w/ gpu inside, it's not that big problem to make Flash on, more than Flash Lite on Windows Mobile, right?


:cool:
 
Matthew Yohe said:
I see that no one can give a good example as to why the iPhone should support Flash. All I see is "FINALLY!"... Finally what? What will this enable you to do when you get flash? How would this benefit you in a way that a native app can't?
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There have been a few times when I've been out and needed to go to a site that was Flash based. Needless to say I couldn't get the info I needed at the time. I definitely don't want Flash enabled all the time but a toggle would be nice for those times when I need it.
 
adampasz said:
All you people moaning about Flash ads, please give some examples of sites you are going to that are so intolerable? I went to 3 sites at random (gamespot, cnn and national enquirer!) and found the ads to be quite sedate in all cases. In fact, the most in-your-face ad I've seen was on Mac Rumors.

I'll grant you that there was a period of incredibly annoying flying Flash ads, but that was like 5 years ago, and you can blame AJAX for those as much as Flash because AJAX enabled the layered DIVs that made them possible. Anyway, people aren't doing those anymore, except maybe on the porn sites you like to visit.

Ads are, by definition, obnoxious. That's the price you pay for the free content. Get over it. Frankly, I find search ads -- those interspersed among legit search results -- to be much more annoying than Flash banners. And I'm going to be happy to finally have Flash on the iPhone so I can access more videos, games and RIAs.
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Thank you for your scientific 3 site survey. Very informative. :eek:
flash ads suck although I now know three sites I can go to when they enable flash on the iphone. Yeah!!
:D
 
I don't care either way. I don't mind not having it, but I also want all the whiners to shut up lol. Just put an on/off preference, but I'd much rather have copy/paste, or universal landscape keyboard, or video capture, or mms, etc. etc. etc.! We will all be waiting till iPhone OS 3.0 for all that though.
 
How about Adobe and Apple team up on a half-decent OS X Flash first? The easiest way for me to detect Flash in a website in Safari is to listen to the fans fireup on my blackbook. Thankgawd for Flashblock and FF3!!!!
 
Maybe Apple will put cut & paste, MMS, and Flash all in the same app. They can name it "Rubbish" and put it on the second page of apps. The icon can be a delicately balanced little pile of poo. When you launch the app, it will be hardcoded to play an audio clip of a crowd of people laughing and making fun of you. The clip lasts 2 minutes. At that point, you are free to copy & paste, MMS, and Flash to your hearts' content.
 
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