Comments on: The philosophical argument against Flash http://rc3.org/2010/01/25/the-philosophical-argument-against-flash/ Rafe Colburn on software development (and other topics) Wed, 23 May 2012 22:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Dowdell http://rc3.org/2010/01/25/the-philosophical-argument-against-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-7815 John Dowdell Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:34:24 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10683#comment-7815 <p>Rafe, what do you think?</p> <p>(When I first read Gruber that passage seemed to say "whether the world buys in doesn't matter; the decision-making process must be by (manipulable) consortium"... he didn't seem to ask, he seemed to be telling. By similar logic, he should shun iPhone and Macintosh. But that was only one passage in a lengthy sermon, so I didn't pursue.)</p> <p>Thanks for posting with a real name, Cameron! Yes, Macs have performance problems, particularly with anything in a browser. Adobe Corp prefers not to emphasize these, in hopes of getting better cooperation in fixing the problems from Apple Corp. Next generation of smartphones has a lot more cooperation for Flash optimization... you could always supplement your Mac with an Android or Palm or whatever.</p> <p>jd/adobe</p> Rafe, what do you think?

(When I first read Gruber that passage seemed to say “whether the world buys in doesn’t matter; the decision-making process must be by (manipulable) consortium”… he didn’t seem to ask, he seemed to be telling. By similar logic, he should shun iPhone and Macintosh. But that was only one passage in a lengthy sermon, so I didn’t pursue.)

Thanks for posting with a real name, Cameron! Yes, Macs have performance problems, particularly with anything in a browser. Adobe Corp prefers not to emphasize these, in hopes of getting better cooperation in fixing the problems from Apple Corp. Next generation of smartphones has a lot more cooperation for Flash optimization… you could always supplement your Mac with an Android or Palm or whatever.

jd/adobe

]]> By: Cameron Barrett http://rc3.org/2010/01/25/the-philosophical-argument-against-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-7811 Cameron Barrett Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:15:46 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10683#comment-7811 <p>Flash is painfully slow on Macs. Adobe would like to point the finger at Apple, but the truth is Apple's hardware is more than fast enough to do video playback. The issue is Flash, pure and simple.</p> <p>Apple's high level of quality control basically forced them to tell Adobe to go take a hike because Flash for video playback simply is not up to the standards they need.</p> <p>This is not Apple's fault; it is Adobe's.</p> <p>Adobe is going to miss out on a HUGE market that we're all going to find out about tomorrow with Apple's tablet announcement.</p> Flash is painfully slow on Macs. Adobe would like to point the finger at Apple, but the truth is Apple’s hardware is more than fast enough to do video playback. The issue is Flash, pure and simple.

Apple’s high level of quality control basically forced them to tell Adobe to go take a hike because Flash for video playback simply is not up to the standards they need.

This is not Apple’s fault; it is Adobe’s.

Adobe is going to miss out on a HUGE market that we’re all going to find out about tomorrow with Apple’s tablet announcement.

]]> By: Beige http://rc3.org/2010/01/25/the-philosophical-argument-against-flash/comment-page-1/#comment-7806 Beige Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:22:54 +0000 http://rc3.org/?p=10683#comment-7806 <p>Worse, Flash is really really really slow. Sure, video is fine on that dual-core real computer, but a netbook with an Atom that can play video via some other software (mplayer, for example) just fine is at the very limits to maybe, maybe not, play low-res youtube via flash.</p> Worse, Flash is really really really slow. Sure, video is fine on that dual-core real computer, but a netbook with an Atom that can play video via some other software (mplayer, for example) just fine is at the very limits to maybe, maybe not, play low-res youtube via flash.

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