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Google confirms Flash will run on Android 2.2 Froyo
Take that, Apple! Google publicly announced today that the upcoming Android 2.2, aka Froyo, will fully support Flash. In a dig at Apple, Google's Andy Rubin told the New York Times that Android's commitment to openness means "not being militant about things consumers are actually enjoying." Rubin also knocked Apple for using private APIs that it won't let outside developers access. "We use the same tools we expect our third-party developers to," he said. Basically, the entire interview revolved around the central theme that Android is open, and the iPhone isn't.
When Froyo is released, we'll see for ourselves how smooth Flash can be on a mobile device. Steve Jobs' war on Flash will either look extremely smart or extremely stupid. However things shake out, it's great to see two top-notch mobile operating systems fighting it out to give users what they want.
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Subscribe to commentslysaofApr 28th 2010 9:05AM
Bingo.
5hRreDDyApr 28th 2010 10:07AM
All this rubbish about openness is all doggy doo-doo.
Flash is a friggin' proprietary platform. iPhone OS supports open platforms like HTML5, CSS and Java.
I agree with Apple's decision not to include Flash on its mobile platform. Normal Flash bombs in performance on Mac OS X (as things are at the moment) and since iPhone OS is based on Mac OS X, I see no reason why performance wouldn't be worse. Even Flash Lite isn't good enough, as the end-user experience is poor and so isn't even close to being worth it.
BrianApr 28th 2010 10:11AM
The is no way Apple will be able to compete with Android in the next few years. Apple is at the peak now, but a closed system is a dead system.
Except for the Apple Fanboys. They, unfortunately, aren't going anywhere.
BrianApr 28th 2010 10:14AM
But why not let the end user decide what is useful or not on their phone? If you pay for the phone, and you pay for the service, it should be up to you what you do with it. Flash isn't going anywhere, whether Steve wants it to or not. Remember, 10% of internet users are on a mac, the rest of us couldn't care less what Steve Jobs wants.
digamejhApr 28th 2010 10:18AM
I'll reserve my judgment until I see it in action...
halophoenixApr 29th 2010 11:27AM
I'm with the skeptics. I'll believe it when I see it, and I'll be glad to see it, but then I'll believe whether it's a good thing when I see it in action.
If Flash appears on Android phones, much to the rabid delight of the Apple haters, who also unfortunately aren't going anywhere, and then Android phones start dying left and right, crashing, or seeing their battery life suffer or CPUs slow down because Adobe doesn't know how to make any app or platform that's not bloated to high hell, people will be clamoring for so-called "closed" platforms.
And remember, Flash my be coming on Android, but Microsoft is still keeping it off of Windows Phone 7, Nokia is keeping it out of Symbian...the list goes on. And somehow this is Apple versus the world and poor Adobe is the victim? Okay, sure.