Comments on: Adobe and Apple Grapple Over iPhone Flash Player http://isource.com/2008/02/25/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/ #1 Source for iPad, iPhone, iPod, Mac and AppleTV Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.6 By: James Katt http://isource.com/2008/02/25/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29376 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:51:26 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/my-2-cents/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29376 Flash is a resource hog and a security risk. Flash is also proprietary, NOT a standard, and not open source for the reader.

Of course, Apple wouldn’t let Adobe develop flash on the iPhone because there is no official SDK yet. Adobe is a third party developer.

The iPhone is for REAL internet browsing on a handheld device. Flash light would not work, it has to be full flash. Yet full flash is a resource hog and full of bugs and security problems. Plus, it has a proprietary DRM which Adobe is not releasing to anyone.

Why should Apple use Flash – unless it OWNED the source code and Flash was open-sourced and GPL’d so that Adobe can’t hog it like Microsoft does Office.

Apple was able to convince Google – which owns YouTube – to switch to the MPEG-4 Format for internet videos. Thus many other sites should consider using MPEG-4 – which is a standard worldwide for videos.

Another thing – Flash leaves it’s own brand of cookies which cannot be removed by the browser. You have to go to Adobe’s website to remove them.

We shall see if Flash makes it on the iPhone. If anything, if Adobe makes the iPhone plug-in and it SUCKS, then Adobe is to blame, not Apple.

What I would like to see is Apple to purchase Adobe and take over Flash development – making it part of Quicktime – then taking over the web. After all, Apple has $18 billion in cash, and Adobe is worth about $4 Billion only.

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://isource.com/2008/02/25/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29375 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:44:51 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/my-2-cents/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29375 Flash is not on the iPhone because of a combination of technical limitations and UI challenges… they’ve been trying to make it work forever, but unless its performance is desktop-class and near-flawless, SJ won’t let it out!

]]> By: Greg Alexander http://isource.com/2008/02/25/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29374 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:05:46 +0000 http://www.mactropolis.com/my-2-cents/adobe-apple-grapple-over-iphone-flash-player/#comment-29374 Your opinion sounds like the most likely thought which fits the facts.

I’m betting that somewhere Apple has a new Quicktime in the works. And one of its features will be playing both Quicktime h264 files and Adobe h264 files.

Perhaps Apple wants to make a bigger play. 10 years ago they had the only interactive video system around – and it was never really developed further. Pity.

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