If you try to go to a Flash site on your iPhone, you are often taken to Adobe's "Get Flash" page because the site thinks this is an option for you. It obviously isn't, of course. But for those who go to the "Get Flash" page on their iPhone, Adobe is adding some sass to their "iPhone doesn't support Flash" message.
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This message has been around for awhile (as far as we remember) but it has only lately specified iPhone. Perhaps to differentiate between mobile Webkit browser that support Flash like Android and Blackberry will and those that don't.[Gear Diary via Engadget]
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How about Adobe stops hiring
How about Adobe stops hiring comedians and starts hiring some fu**ing engineers who can design a version of flash that isn't a total battery hog?
Just a thought.
and fix the mac version while
and fix the mac version while they are at it >_<
Adobe can stick it... Over
Adobe can stick it... Over priced software upgrades, with very little new features every freakin year.
It's just a matter of time before Apple will allow a Flash plugin on the iPhone, but Adobe is just an arrogant b-whole.
And stop complaining
Flash works fine for me, is it not only the new 27" iMac thats having the problem? Doesn't seem like a Adobe problem.
Flash won't be coming to the iPhone anytime soon, Apple likes pretending that they get good battery life compared to other smart phones. And I guess they do, but it's only because of all the things they won't let you do. ie running things in the background. And just to point out watching utube on the iphone will kill the battery just as fast as Flash I bet.
It's everyone
Works fine? Leave a web page open with flash applets and check your CPU and memory usage.
Flash is a slow, bloated pig. While your Mac may be fast enough to overcome the slowness, it's still is far slower than it should be on your or my hardware.
adobe sucks
It's kind of enjoyable to add to this. Damn I hate Adobe, for all of the above reasons. I really hope open source kills Adobe, the greedy buggers deserve to die. And that message is really misleading - if flash wasn't such a demand on the processor then Apple would no doubt allow it to work, I imagine as it is flash would over heat the iphone and break it. Stupid flash.
before we get flash on the iPhone
can we get flash that runs worth a crap in osx? on my 2 year old macbook it is terrible. except in bootcamp that is - it runs fine in win7, and before that in vista.
why is this so difficult? with flash as it stands in osx, i don't want it on my iPhone.
Your Mac Flash Issue
Your flash performance in OSX blows goats because it's running in a virtual machine. There's an additional (piggish) abstraction layer that flash content directly interracts with. This introduces a huge amount of overhead, but the benefit is platform ambiguity.
IMHO, this is a cheap way to overcome Adobe's requirement to code flash for each specific platform (linux, osx, etc).. It's wasteful with resources & clearly not a good solution.
Let's face it...
Let's face it folks, Adobe doesn't give a flying f**k about it's Mac customers any more. Flash has been a CPU hog on the Mac for years. Creative suit is only 32-bit on the Mac but WIndows users get 64-bit. Yet, Adobe points their finger at Apple. Honestly, I think Apple is just as tired of Adobe's BS as we are.
Creating websites that need
Creating websites that need Flash for their basic navigation and general functionality is ridiculous anyway. What Flash represents to me is annoying banners with ear shattering looped music.
I know, I know, it has it's uses. Unfortunately it's so easy to misuse.
One can dream, no?
**begindream**
I wish Apple would the load of cash they're sitting on to simply buy Adobe, fire the useless management team, bring in some new talent and breathe a much needed breath of fresh air back into the product teams. Maybe then they'd have feature parity, decent performance for all their supported platforms *and* provide some actual new features that might make their updates worth buying.
**enddream**
Yeah, I know ... it's utopian, will never happen, etc., etc. But one can still dream, no?
Flash is a usability offense
Flash is a usability offense. Why not fix the offending websites instead? I can't begin to tell you how many sites load a gluttony of Flash animations and then start running them all at once. How useless is that -- this gets my dual core processor humming at 150% CPU just to render a website. What the heck?
And then at the other end of the spectrum are the sites that navigate everything using a single massive Flash animations, try using the Back arrow to navigate to a previous screen.
Kudos to Apple for recognizing the usability problem Flash presents, not to mention the fact that it's a resource hog and is now rendered virtually obsolete with HTML 5.
Iphone doesnt need flash!
Instead that, adobe must fix the flash player for windows x64 systems
What Adobe is really saying...
What Adobe is really saying:
"Apple has product quality standards that we can't meet. Instead of improving our dog food, we're going to whine as if it isn't our own gosh-darn fault"
-hh
Fix it now, Apple.
I don't care if Flash is a bloated, smelly, dirty disgusting pig of cantankerous code. Fact is, Flash is ubiquitous or endemic, depending on one's point of view, and as a Mac user I have to live with it. It matters not to me that Apple and Adobe have been feuding. If Flash doesn't run on a Mac it is Apple's job to provide the solution. Apple has dropped the ball big time by ignoring the frustration and anger of its customers. Hell, if Flash runs well on a Windows PC there is no reason that Mac users have to acquiesce to lesser functionality. I am perplexed why Apple's spite needs to be my problem.
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