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How much do you miss flash?
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I don't miss Flash per se, but I do miss the ability to watch a lot of web video on my iDevices, such as content on the BBC websites, Stuff.tv, Engadget, etc.
Illegal drugs are everywhere, and real, but I don't use them either. Sometimes it's good to be a zealot.
Steve is doing the world a favor by single handedly killing Flash and hopefully Adobe with it. IF YOU WANT PORN BUY A POS ANDROID DEVICE.
Holy crap, my phone does porn! SCORE! *frantically scours Android Marketplace*
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*crickets chirping*
Not finding much. Meh. I'll just stick with my free, unlimited WiFi hotspot usage from my POS Android phone to stream something saucy while I wait for Froyo.
/feeding trolls makes them go away, right?
I am surprised the other way.
I was not expecting so many sites to have adapted so quickly.
A lot of the places I visit have embedded video - that plays just fine in the iPad browser.
I even saw an animated banner ad yesterday, presumably done in HTML 5. That was perhaps less welcome.
The BBC iPlayer was up and running on the iPad for the UK launch day.
My guess is that almost all serious content providers will have working solutions in place within months, not years.
Sure, there will be some Flash die hard dinosaurs. But there are still sites with Real Player on them. Remember that?
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I was not expecting so many sites to have adapted so quickly.
A lot of the places I visit have embedded video - that plays just fine in the iPad browser.
I even saw an animated banner ad yesterday, presumably done in HTML 5. That was perhaps less welcome.
The BBC iPlayer was up and running on the iPad for the UK launch day.
My guess is that almost all serious content providers will have working solutions in place within months, not years.
Sure, there will be some Flash die hard dinosaurs. But there are still sites with Real Player on them. Remember that?
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No you can't. Huge amounts of YouTube videos never appear on the iPhone/iPad app. Pretty much no content partner videos or items from the YouTube Shows section are available, as almost all the contracts require YouTube to serve the content via RTMPE which is a Flash only protocol.
Certainly on my iPhone I come accross a site where something is broken due to the absence of Flash that I wanted to see *at least* every day. It's a major issue.
Phazer
I dont miss it either, 99% of the time. In fact i like how it means i got a lot less ads, and faster page loads. Occasionally there's a video i'd like to see thats flash only, but with more and more HTML5 versions of sites running alongside the flash version i see this less and less often.