Jobs vs Flash
I’ve been reading a lot about this topic and feel there are always a couple of points in my opinion left unsaid…
- First of all I believe its pretty irresponsible say that the main reason of crashes in MacOS is the FlashPlayer. Flash is only a tool and as EVERY tool there are ways of using them wrong. Adobe shouldn’t take the responsibility for bad programmers. If that’s the case Adobe could say that the flash player runs in MacOS thus it’s a MacOS problem. Should be pretty easy create an application with lots of leaks for the iPhone which crashes, and] shouldn’t be the fault of the IPhone but of the App.
After reading this Jabcob Nielsen report about iPad Usability and knowing how Jobs thinks I could conclude that the iPad doesn’t work, but this means there are room for improvement.
- Second excuse used against Flash it’s that a platform independent application won’t take advantage of all the advantages a particular platform offers. I think this depends on how its implemented which could be a requirement from Apple and not an excuse to deny it. And why I think it depends on the implementation? basically think that this particularities should be transparent for the developer, how the app its going to behave when its minimized or in background should be responsibility of the Flash Player (how in fact is handle from version 10.1)
After a lot being said against Flash I’m more convinced this is a direct attack against Flash directly or there is any other reason why in almost every attack posts no one mention Silverlight or any other plug-in? If the community is so certain that plug-in are going to die why the need to Kill them now? isn’t better to let the time determine who has the reason instead of looking like an Ass? I’m sure Adobe will continue innovating and adding more cool stuff in the player!
Here are a collection of interesting posts about the topic:
- Apple Steve Jobs Letter Rebuttal
- The truth about Flash
- Top Flash Misperceptions: Touch Devices
- Top Flash Misperceptions: CPU Hog
And to conclude I just want to say that I’ve been working with Adobe Flex for a long time now and I’m a proudly owner of a Mac but I just can’t agree with one person telling what not to use. And yes, Adobe is not the most open Company of all but surely is more open than others, and its trying…
Well those are my two cents… 