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All iPads "Thoughts on Flash"
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Ah, plus all the comments on MacRumors from people saying they won't buy an iPhone/iPad until Apple support Flash like Android does.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I hated Flash. It was a necessary evil but I'm so glad most websites have moved away from it.
It is unbelievable there still are sites that use Flash.
God I know! The amount of things you can do now just with JavaScript libraries alone is astounding. That being said, I work for a huge company (employs 250,000+) and they STILL use Flash for some of our internal web sites! It's crazy and absolutely as gross of a UX as you'd imagine lol
Glad it’s mostly vanished and not missing it one bit.
Haha I was actually just thinking about my old middle school/junior high love affair with addictinggames.com. All the games were in flash but it was great because you could play them from within the browser on any of the school computers with a simple workaroundYou guys are forgetting all of those old but memorable flash games!
Bloons was a personal favorite of mine where you played the little monkey trying to pop all the balloons before you ran out of darts to throw. Actually come to think of it, I believe they eventually made an iOS port of it soon after the launch of the original App Store.
(Sigh) those were the days
You guys are forgetting all of those old but memorable flash games!
im not sure if Forge of empires is considered as an old game. it works with browser, flash installed, nowadays with html5 too. There is an app, but some features works only with a browser.
Flash is/was great when used properly. I have it installed on my mbp.
Haha! I do not miss Flash at all. Haven't had it on any of my computers for nearly 10 years now.
Ah the good old days. You always knew Flash was running somewhere because the laptop fan would start spinning way up, and the battery would start draining at an unprecedented rate. (If you feel the need to experience this little bit of nostalgia, just try using Chrome for a full day with no power cable. It will give you the full experience even without any Flash items running.)
I definitely remember many people complaining that Steve Jobs didn't like Flash because it kept him from selling iPhone game apps. I tend to believe that really didn't have much to do with it at all. Either way, my iPad Pro's 10 hour battery life definitely appreciates it.
I definitely remember many people complaining that Steve Jobs didn't like Flash because it kept him from selling iPhone game apps. I tend to believe that really didn't have much to do with it at all. Either way, my iPad Pro's 10 hour battery life definitely appreciates it.
It's all but dead. Adobe recommended not using it years ago.
Adobe vice president put out a press release many, many years ago about the end of mobile flash support and he recommended moving on to HTML5/CSS technologies. I think Flash as a technology is still around until 2020.
No, not being developed by reputable developers. There are still hold outs that will take your $10,000US to develop an app for you. They will NOT however mention that at the end of 2020, it will probably be useless.
Just getting back to this thread. I love watching old videos like this, not because I'm one of those "Steve Jobs would have never......." type people, but because Apple has the most fascinating history of events I have ever seen. It's amazing enough to look at the company from inception all the way up to the bondi blue iMac and read about all the things that had to work out exactly as they did in order for that to even happen. But what's more amazing is watching everything unfold from original iPod all the way up to current iOS devices.
I've re-watched snippets of this interview before, but I started from the beginning on this thread, and forgot how much Walt Mossberg was being the typical tech journalist. Instead of actually listening to Apple's thinking on why Flash needed to die and HTML5 needed to take over, he just kept hanging on to Flash as if the entire world was being screwed over by the iPad. He even referenced some obscure photo editing site that nobody used or cared about because it runs on Flash.
Ask old grandpa Walt now if he still thinks Flash should be around.
I've re-watched snippets of this interview before, but I started from the beginning on this thread, and forgot how much Walt Mossberg was being the typical tech journalist. Instead of actually listening to Apple's thinking on why Flash needed to die and HTML5 needed to take over, he just kept hanging on to Flash as if the entire world was being screwed over by the iPad. He even referenced some obscure photo editing site that nobody used or cared about because it runs on Flash.
Ask old grandpa Walt now if he still thinks Flash should be around.
You guys are forgetting all of those old but memorable flash games!
Newgrounds,com and the Blockhead game... Salad fingers... R** animal babies... and who could forget... Windows A.I.D.S and Windows H.I.V. flash games lol