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Re: It's over, Apple was ri...

KDT

Subject	Re: It's over, Apple was right...
From	KDT
Date	2012-08-22 01:25 (2012-08-21 16:25)
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On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:57:19 PM UTC-4, ed wrote: ed On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 9:28:15 PM UTC-7, KDT wrote: =20 KDT On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:53:30 PM UTC-4, ed wrote: ed =20 ... =20 Apple wasn't right or wrong - they were SUCCESSFUL in getting f= lash killed... =20 So it's Apple's fault that Adobe has never met it's deadlines on = Android devices? And that it took a 1Ghz+ phone to play video back accepta= bly? Something that could be done on an 80Mhz iPod Classic? =20 KDT And of course Ed will never admit that Adobe had problems supportin= g Flash on Android because of fragmentation..... ed =20 KDT http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/06/flash-player-and-android= -update.html ed =20 KDT Even though Adobe said that devices had to be "certified" to work w= ith devices reliably.... ed =20 Oh jeebus. Why do you want to try and go over the same old crap over= and over? =20 KDT Because you claimed that Apple doomed Flash, when in actuality Flash wa= s doomed on Android because.... ed =20 =20 =20 holy thread out of control batman. apple did doom flash, without it bein= g android specific. as has been repeatedly pointed out here, ios- not just= phones, but ios as a whole- has a huge marketshare. apple's refusal to al= low flash on it shoved a knife into flash. the issues that you point out w= ith regards to android certainly didn't help (maybe apple stabbed flash, an= d adobe twisted the knives themselves with their lousy execution- happy? := P). =20 =20 =20 KDT 1. Poor implementation. There is no excuse for it taking a 1ghz+ device= to play video decently.=20 ed =20 KDT =20 ed =20 KDT 2. The fact that it became hard for Adobe to support and "certify" all = of the different devices. ed =20 =20 =20 #2 was never a big issue. even now, i have flash available on a nexus 7.= totally unsupported device, that they're actively blocking. works fine. = :P So it wasn't a big issue...you might want to tell Adobe that....

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2012-08-22

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