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- timusca, on 03/19/2008, -10/+109*sigh*
I hope someone is developing AdBlock for the iPhone as we speak... I really do. Flash might be useful for some things, but it will make surfing the web a nightmare consisting of "FREE iPods for being the millionth customer"! - mizike, on 03/19/2008, -7/+64*****, it's like you guys want it to only have a 15 minute battery life....."my new iphone is sweet, it's got flash, GPS and a built in easy bake oven.....huh, why did it just turn off after 30 seconds of use?, my muffins aren't ready yet!!"
sometimes less is more... - lquid, on 03/19/2008, -9/+55Who let the first 3 people comment?
***** retards. - inactive, on 03/19/2008, -43/+82Everyone should take note that this is Adobe's announcement, not Apple's.
When Flash doesn't happen on the iPhone and take my word for it, Apple will NOT let it happen, somehow the media and Anti-Apple people will parlay this into some kind of controversy where they say Apple "promised" Flash and then pulled the rug out. It will become the biggest myth since the 1.1.1 update, the one where Apple was blamed for bricking iPhone even though Apple warned people ahead of time by press releases and signs in their stores and even a warning built into the installer.
The myth will in turn become a series of articles about how Apple has lost their way and are on the road to destruction and how Steve Jobs eats kittens for breakfast. Don't say I didn't warn you. - geoken, on 03/19/2008, -2/+40Flash is only enabling something which will exist no matter what. If Flash became irrelevent do you not think the annoying ads would immidiately go back to their GIF roots? Hell, some of the more annoying ones (like that jittereng windows dialog box) are still GIFs.
Hating Flash for annoying advertisements is like hating paper because the billboards on your way to work are distracting. - Gabberwok, on 03/19/2008, -10/+48Frankly aside from streaming video, it's kind of nice not to have Flash on the iPhone. I hate those f***ing ads.
- timusca, on 03/19/2008, -13/+46Do you want it to wipe your ass too? I swear to God, you people are way too demanding... I understand the desire for 3G and GPS, but demanding it to be available outside of AT&T isn't going to happen - they have a 5-year contract with them. And if they fulfill those demands, what will it be then? Dual screens? RedTube built-in?
- clesch, on 03/19/2008, -8/+40How about fixing Flash for Safari 3 first?
- JasonCox, on 03/19/2008, -3/+30Adobe, I love you and do you know why?
Jobs doesn't want Flash on the iPhone yet you're going to do it anyway-
Yet all of us x64 Windows and Linux users have been begging for a few years to get an x64 version of Flash and you outright refuse to do it.
And lets not forget that you're only doing this because Ballmer talked about bringing Silverlight to the iPhone. - timusca, on 03/19/2008, -4/+28Yeah, except that will never happen. The majority of Photoshop copies sold, I would bet, are for Mac. Even if more are sold for Windows, you really think Adobe will give up that much revenue to make a point?
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -1/+24This is great news. I've always wanted to see ***** flash intros, annoying flash ads and even more annoying flash widgets on my iPhone.
- chrisxkelley, on 03/19/2008, -3/+24Definitely possible in a software update.
- dualityim, on 03/19/2008, -3/+19Same reason Apple would block Java Virtual Machine: both are virtual machine runtimes that can load programs compiled for their specific code platforms, which means both can run any applications made for their platforms, bypassing Apple's control. And Apple won't let that happen.
- revjustin2, on 03/19/2008, -1/+17What?! Hombrew Linux app support and a PHOTO EDITOR over FLASH?! Are you so out of touch with reality that you think this should be a priority for the iPhone dev team? Since most iPhone users are normal human beings who could give a ***** less about homebrew apps and open source photo editing (ON THEIR PHONES? - that's what a full size 'puter is for) and care more about being able to view the millions of websites with Flash content, I can't even begin to understand your logic here.
- cornwarrior, on 03/19/2008, -2/+17Amen to that! If you keep waiting around for a "perfect" phone, you're never going to have a phone, because it doesn't exist, and it never will.
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 03/19/2008, -1/+15What's so good about a flip phone?
- weneedsound, on 03/19/2008, -1/+14This could be awesome or bad. I don't like the idea of the advertisements but flash video embeds would be great.
- Slick50, on 03/19/2008, -1/+14Let's cut through the crap and get to the important stuff. Does this mean Youporn on the iPhone?
- nirav72, on 03/19/2008, -0/+12Why the hell would you want a photo editor on a phone? Especially something like Gimp? Its a Phone!!! maybe a music and video player with internet capability. But its still a phone! If you want a photoeditor, go by yourself a tablet pc running linux or use a notebook.
- brdude, on 03/19/2008, -1/+12I hate when I click on the wrong button when digging something. I really wish would implement a way of undigging a comment.
- dmadip, on 03/19/2008, -0/+10if by streaming video you mean redtube? then yes we all want flash on the iPhone
- inactive, on 03/19/2008, -0/+10My understanding that the videos that play on youtube for the iphone are in h.264 and not flash.
- revjustin2, on 03/19/2008, -2/+12I understand where you are coming from, but I guess I am too much of a noob to understand why Apple would block Flash. Help anyone?
- chrisxkelley, on 03/19/2008, -1/+11Garage Band photo editor? What?
- kevincannon, on 03/19/2008, -5/+15OR.... the iPhone isn't all that powerful and running Flash or Java, and it would run very very slowly on it.
The Flash Plugin isn't really on any mobile devices for this very reason. I'm not sure why people keep ignoring that fact. - inactive, on 03/19/2008, -3/+13But But But what about the battery life???
- vibrokatana, on 03/19/2008, -3/+12You do know that the BIOS is completely seperate from the Operating System right? The iPhone is likely based off of OSX which is based on FreeBSD. Also Adobe is seperate from Apple, so their development teams are independant. Good god, why am I correcting a troll?
- CodeCobalt, on 03/19/2008, -1/+10There are striped down flash plugins that can be found for ppc. and they are getting close hardware wise... The processors they've got in these phones is very impressive... I believe I read that there are some phones out with dual core processors now.. only 450MHz, but very impressive.
And if apple wont allow it because it by passes their control.. . well that sounds worse than microsoft. Hell at least on a ppc or pc you can do whatever you want with it, they don't care once you've paid for it. I mean yea they want you to buy their stuff, and they'll advertise it... but for a consumer thats willing to do a little searching so worth it. - revjustin2, on 03/19/2008, -1/+10I had to digg you down because you used the phrase "to reach perfection".
- chrisxkelley, on 03/19/2008, -0/+9You win the best grammar on Digg award! Congrats!
- 4DFX, on 03/19/2008, -3/+12One thing is certain...
There won't be a 64bit version - londubh, on 03/19/2008, -3/+12Shortly thereafter it was announced that flashblock will be developed for the iphone.
- lumbergh, on 03/19/2008, -1/+9Youporn.com on the iPhone would be pretty cool, admittedly.
- Quicksilver4648, on 03/19/2008, -1/+9You CPU gets stressed by flash ads?
- coolbru, on 03/19/2008, -1/+9Why use it for Video? iPhone already has better video than flash - why clutter up nice clean H.264 with a Flash wrapper?
- lilzaphod, on 03/19/2008, -1/+8It doesn't matter what the market size is. Only the 'cool' kids run x64, and they demand the very best.
x64 bit OS' seems to be the new technology martyr battle cry now that no one gives a crap about the Amigas.. - loganhuddleston, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6who the ***** are you, Ronald McDonald?
- betobeto, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6Being asked to punch monkeys on my iPhone? Um... God, no.
- spacebuddy, on 03/19/2008, -1/+7Now I can watch youporn.com on my touch, sweet :)
- TheWorm, on 03/19/2008, -1/+7Because that will happen.
- JonLatane, on 03/19/2008, -0/+6Seriously. There's only two cases when the fan turns on in my Macbook: I'm running a resource-intensive game, or if there's Flash on a web page.
- loganhuddleston, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5The scratches on my iphone arent on the screen they are everywhere else.
- smokinaces46, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5The youtube videos available to watch on the iPhone have been converted to a different codec, h.264.
- megaton, on 03/19/2008, -1/+6I wonder how they're going to get around the "no interpreted code" part of the license agreement...
- betobeto, on 03/19/2008, -1/+6And that's why I'm no longer using NES or other console emulators on the iPhone either. Same issue. Yes, they're cool, but I'd rather avoid the big burden of replacing the battery sooner than expected.
- digitalpencil, on 03/19/2008, -3/+8Majority of art houses use macs so for Adobe to lock out their lead customers would be about the stupidest thing they could possibly do.
- timusca, on 03/19/2008, -5/+10No, its like hating billboards and being okay with paper. Which is precisely true. Except the billboard start playing loud, obnoxious videos that you can't turn off because the damn mute button is too hard to find.
- directrix13, on 03/19/2008, -1/+6I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means. But Apple has done quite a lot to further push standards. In fact, you say "as you have Flash installed the experience of your video or ap or whatever will be the same regardless of the platform. Ajax and other solutions relay on you having the right browser that can support all of Ajax's features." Well, you either install that browser cross-platform (which it is available) or install that Flash plugin into another browser which is installed. Looks the same to me. Additionally, Safari is very standards compliant and what works in it works in most of the other browsers in the exact same way. Real standards FTW!
- bigsteve, on 03/19/2008, -0/+5I don't want to touch your Touch.
- Iwantawii, on 03/19/2008, -3/+8scrabulous!!!!!
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