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Adobe plays the porn card against Apple and the iPad
Couple the lack of iPhone support with the keynote presentation of the iPad, where Steve Jobs proudly displays the lack of Flash, and you can see why Adobe has just launched an anti-iPad smear campaign.
Not ones to tread lightly, or even scale up their assault, they've waded right in and played the porn card. As you can see, they've already removed the offensive part of the screenshot, but not before generating a lot of angry comments and even some commentary from Wired.
Adobe's poster ends with the slogan "Millions of websites use Flash. Get used to the blue legos." Maybe, as Jay said yesterday, Apple's customers don't want Flash. It performs poorly, it steals vital CPU cycles, it flattens your battery faster than an American stocking up at an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Hopefully this is the kick in the butt Adobe needs to make Flash a little more efficient and less impotence-inducing. Watching --and feeling! -- my 2.2GHz laptop sit at 100% CPU usage while viewing Flash videos is truly a sad sight to behold.
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Subscribe to commentsenerGIJan 30th 2010 4:38PM
Apple dont want Flash on the iPad, why, because that would mean they loose control of the apps and a chunk of money from the apps store, and they dont want to do that do they? Adobe just have sour grapes about Apple not wanting anyone else playing in their sandpit, and Apple couldn't care less.
Annoying PosterJan 30th 2010 4:43PM
while i hate apple because they offer crippled and inferior products for double the price of competitors, and relating this to the article, the lack of flash digs them an even deeper hole in that regard.
however, i just had to comment because of the braindead metaphor the author used:
"...it flattens your battery faster than an American stocking up at an all-you-can-eat buffet. "
what the fuck????
terrible reference and not funny at all
Sebastian AnthonyJan 30th 2010 5:00PM
:)
I actually tried to think of something witty for a few minutes, and then gave up...
I'm here all week!
JamesJan 30th 2010 4:49PM
I notice nobody has mentioned Flash 10.1 yet -- granted, I hate that it took years and years (and years...) to *finally* add hardware video acceleration to Flash, but at least they have it now. I've been running the beta for a month or two now and frankly the difference when running something like full-screen Hulu on my 1080p laptop display is night and day. It's an awesome upgrade, and if they could make it work with the iPad graphics chipset, I bet they could make all the speed worries (though not the power-consumption ones...) disappear.
ragtagJan 30th 2010 7:43PM
What about Java applets? I've heard nothing about if the iPad runs them or not. I'm guessing not.
I know Java applets are a bit old hat, but my bank still uses one for secure login, so without it online banking is out on the iPad. That and a few fun games.
Both Flash and Java applets are also used for a few handy tools, besides games and videos, such as upload helpers (like in WordPress and others).
tacouchJan 31st 2010 12:45AM
Yet one more reason to tell Apple to piss off, just like I did Infinity Ward and Dice (Game Devs) over their latest flaps.
By the way you might want to check your facts. The blog you quoted isn't and Adobe blog. It's an employees opinion blog.
Footer of the site makes that pretty evident also.
Quote "Copyright © Forever Lee Brimelow. All rights reserved."
Adobe isn't mentioned what so ever. In fact the only spot I can find Adobe mentioned at all is his About block, but it still doesn't say its an official Adobe site.
Sebastian AnthonyJan 31st 2010 11:28AM
Cheers for the info :)
I think it's about as 'official' as an Adobe Flash blog gets. But yes, it probably wasn't cleared by their internal legal team...!
NeogeneJan 31st 2010 6:49AM
The main problem of flash avm2 is the lack of multithreading, this feature is the really big issue.
EthanJan 31st 2010 7:47AM
I think they should put flash in. I'd turn it off most of the time, as I do with my main computer, but I'd still like it.
bryonJan 31st 2010 11:09AM
"it flattens your battery faster than an American stocking up at an all-you-can-eat buffet."
Umm.. Huh?
GKFeb 1st 2010 8:27AM
I think we need a bit more info on what video was maxing your CPU out. HD flash, sure, but you've got some other problem if a standard Youtube or Hulu video was pushing you to 100%. I'm still using an old P4 3Ghz with HT, and it rarely goes above 30% on those standard videos. If it was an HD video, then be reasonable...all HD video requires a pretty hefty CPU if you don't have GPU acceleration.
Martin H. HamstadFeb 1st 2010 3:07AM
Through private life and work I have installed and are using Firefox on several computers. On some of these computers I have deliberately not installed Flash. Flash content where you don't want it is just too annoying. My only wish is that it should be possible to tell Firefox that I don't want it, period! Firefox keeps nagging me every time I open certain pages to install it.
80scartoonFeb 1st 2010 3:06PM
"I can't fap to this..."