Ten Myths of Apple's iPad: 2. It needs Flash

Second segment of ten looking at fallacious criticisms of Apple's new iPad multitouch tablet computer. Daniel Eran Dilger of RoughDrafted Magazine: roughlydrafted.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apple
• iPad
• iPhone
• Adobe
• Flash
• Silverlight
• Google
• Android
• HTML5
• H.264
• QuickTime

[dertdamb]

Look at the iSheep bleating to his shepherd. "Steve says I don't need Flash, so I don't."

[AZERILA24]

You are King on this Topic. Very detailed oriented! Thanks for putting it in words.

[fkeopfkeop]

@thehighconcept You’re contradicting yourself and your very ignorant, did you even read the article I cited? It was not about tech, but preformance. I have yet to see vector manipulation like shape tween in HTML5/CSS3/JS/Canvas/SVG, can you show an animation in in HTML5 doing this?

[hamstaman]

@Hildron101010 If the game was made to use the mouse I don't see why it wouldn't work just as well with touch input. A click is a click. And for the one's using keyboard you'd obviously not be able to play on many mobile devices. But that's only a subset of the games and applications after all.

[thehighconcept]

@azel6 Wow, two years later. Then Google ships Android 4.0 ICS and Adobe doesn't have a version of Flash available for it. That's what you want? The web in the hands of one incompetent vendor that can't be replaced because it has established a monopoly on a critical infrastructure link?

[thehighconcept]

@aw1133t Yes, resisting bad but well entrenched standards is a choice.

It's how Eastern Europe got rid of Communism and how Macs took back market share from Windows. You can't have options if you can't choose anything but the monopoly and some phony choices erected by the monopolist.

[thehighconcept]

@fkeopfkeop HTML5 isn't a proprietary vendor platform, it's an open specification. So no, it's not functionally equivalent to Flash, nor is it aiming to be. Its point was to facilitate open web servers, tools and clients that don't need a plugin like Flash or Silverlight (why Apple & Google supported it and Adobe & Microsoft resisted it until they had no chance of winning).

The article you cite is based on bad information. Any tech Adobe can deliver for Flash it can also for HTML5.

[Hildron101010]

@hamstaman Well how would those games even be played if they were made for a regular keyboard and mouse and not for touch input?

[hamstaman]

@Coraxuss You'd be hard-pressed to find a modern device that doesn't support Javascript/CSS. In what way is Flash limiting the experience, except for the people who willingly buy devices that doesn't support it?

[hamstaman]

@Hildron101010 Flash isn't needed the way any Rich platform isn't needed. However it sure would be nice to have access to literally tens of thousands of Flash games on the web on the iPad.

[hamstaman]

@RoughlyDraftedVideo Flash was never an HTML-alternative.