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From: tmoran on 22 Feb 2010 14:50
> Apple's Jobs Says Flash Crashes Macs; No Flash for iPad, iPhone Planned
I can understand a particular program that implements the Flash protocol
might be buggy and crash, but that merely needs a better implementation.
From: Larry on 22 Feb 2010 17:39
John Navas <spamfilter1(a)navasgroup.com> wrote in
news:7vqtn5hgi8hnqkg2cotunanpnnkvgo7itl(a)navasgroup.com:

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/19/ipad_wsj/



--
"iPad is to computing what Etch-A-Sketch is to art!"

Larry

Which megalomaniac does Jobs remind you of?

Each passing month his fantasy of internet domination gets worse and worse.
He's only Apple Computer, a tiny part of the internet-connected computer
community. Duhh....

From: DanS on 23 Feb 2010 15:27
tmoran(a)acm.org wrote in news:hlun5j$c2t$1(a)speranza.aioe.org:

>> Apple's Jobs Says Flash Crashes Macs; No Flash for iPad, iPhone Planned
> I can understand a particular program that implements the Flash protocol
> might be buggy and crash, but that merely needs a better implementation.
>

Yes, but the article gave the real reasons.... $$$$$$$$$$$$$
From: Dennis Ferguson on 23 Feb 2010 21:56
On 2010-02-22, tmoran(a)acm.org <tmoran(a)acm.org> wrote:
>> Apple's Jobs Says Flash Crashes Macs; No Flash for iPad, iPhone Planned
> I can understand a particular program that implements the Flash protocol
> might be buggy and crash, but that merely needs a better implementation.

That's easier said than done. The Flash protocol is not fully
public (Adobe doesn't publish RTMPE specs, and has sent at least
one DMCA letter to the author of a reverse engineered implementation)
and the terms for doing an implementation of what they have published
(allowing Adobe to violate your patents in any of their products) are
a bit onerous for a lot of companies. It is very hard not to depend
on the software Adobe writes if you want Flash support.

One can see why they'd want to find something more openly specified
and freely implementable to replace Flash.

Dennis Ferguson
From: SMS on 24 Feb 2010 14:29
Dennis Ferguson wrote:
> On 2010-02-22, tmoran(a)acm.org <tmoran(a)acm.org> wrote:
>>> Apple's Jobs Says Flash Crashes Macs; No Flash for iPad, iPhone Planned
>> I can understand a particular program that implements the Flash protocol
>> might be buggy and crash, but that merely needs a better implementation.
>
> That's easier said than done. The Flash protocol is not fully
> public (Adobe doesn't publish RTMPE specs, and has sent at least
> one DMCA letter to the author of a reverse engineered implementation)
> and the terms for doing an implementation of what they have published
> (allowing Adobe to violate your patents in any of their products) are
> a bit onerous for a lot of companies. It is very hard not to depend
> on the software Adobe writes if you want Flash support.
>
> One can see why they'd want to find something more openly specified
> and freely implementable to replace Flash.

I'm rooting for Apple on this one. If the iPad becomes as popular as the
iPhone, there will be a lot of pressure on web developers to detect the
platform and serve up content with alternatives to Flash. Then there
will be ways to spoof the browser so you can get Flash-free content
served up to you even if your platform is able to do Flash.

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