Apple iPhone Devices – Flash or HTML5?
February 8, 2010 by Anita
Apple and Adobe may never see eye to eye and are still throwing punches at one another over Apple’s stand that they will not allow its new iPad to run Adobe’s Flash software.
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO states that flash is buggy and will slow down the various Apple devices and goes as far as to state that Adobe is lazy. Adobe’s chief technology officer, Kevin Lynch ignores the punches and throws one of his own stating that Apple wants the control of what their iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad users can do with all their devices.
Fighting back and forth between Apple and Adobe, Apple saying Flash is old news and Adobe of course saying it is the only way to go, is certainly not helping the thousands of users that may wish to see websites that are at this using Flash.
If you look past the throwing stones to learn if Apple or Flash are correct in their sayings you must realize that Flash still has unfixed bugs that does cause crashes in Flash.
Kevin Lynch, on the Adobe blog defends flash all the way to the end stating, “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.”
I myself hate visiting websites using Flash as it in some cases, stops my Toshiba laptop in its tracks and of course the old Ctrl, Alt, Del, must be used to get it going again.
With Flash being as unstable as it is, Adobe should be concerned that Apple may be at the beginning of a new way in which websites are built, which may be HTML5 instead of Flash, unless Adobe can fix their crashing problems. When so many browsers are crashing due to Flash, developers will begin looking for an alternative.
Tags: Adobe, app, Apple, case, Flash, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, News, OS, Steve Jobs, USA
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Apple iPhone Devices – Flash or HTML5?
Article by Anita
Anita Johnston is a professional writer who dedicates some of her time to blog on iPhoneWorld.ca. She like computers and technology and is an expert on the Internet.
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