Adobe Flash

[OJsakila]

yea and maybe ole stevie can squeeze World Peace in the next phone as well. People are notorious for NEVER being happy. Just go buy a laptop, for crying out loud. That's what you want the iPhone to do, right? Name ONE thing that a laptop does that you would be happy to have WITHOUT on the iPhone?









This post is not written to anyone in particular.... Just all you numbnuts that are complaining...

[Napoleon_PhoneApart]

Originally Posted by xcissexc

off topic but how did you submit your reply? "nope." is only 5 characters

I have a few periods after the word that are white, the color of the background...

Highlight the word and a few spaces after it and see.

[kneshoba]

Would apple allow firefox to run on the iPhone? Apple would be giving up market share for their browser, I would think. Just my opinion.

[Spin This!]

Apple would allow Firefox but why anyone would want to run that bloated code on a mobile device is beyond me. A straight port would be useless since you wouldn't be getting the tricks that Apple uses to make browsing on a small screen so useful (double-tap, pinch, etc). And I can't see Firefox developers taking time away to do so—although an enterprising hacker might. It would be a lot of work for not a lot of gain imo. Have you seen the Firefox code base? Where to begin...

And Firefox wouldn't bring Flash support to the iPhone... only Adobe can compile a strongarm version since their code is proprietary.

I love Firefox for development on the desktop.. but on the iPhone it just doesn't make much sense.

[mlass]

from
http://techblog.dallasnews.com/archi...ake-flash.html

Why won't Apple give any iPhone love to Adobe? AppleInsider explains the feud in its three-part Flash Wars series but here's the gist:

This stance was partially driven by the company's determination to prevent the shabby Flash experience on its Mac platform from spilling over to the iPhone. Since Flash code is interpreted not by the Web browser but rather a plug-in, that's left Apple and other platform vendors reliant on Adobe to provide a suitable and stable runtime environment. That didn't happen with the Mac, as Adobe focused the majority of its efforts on polishing the Windows plug-in while the Mac version fell behind in both features and performance.

Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has also been openly critical of Adobe's fragmentation of Flash into desktop and "Lite" versions, stating that neither are suitable for use on his company's handheld products. Specifically, he said the desktop version "performs too slow to be useful" on the iPhone while Flash Lite is similarly useless in that it's not fully capable of running the plethora of content written for the desktop version.