Steve Jobs was right!

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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-11-09/mark-smith-adobe-flash-mobile/51135466/1


Adobe has told developers that it no longer plans to develop future versions of its Flash Player for mobile browsers.It's a huge shift for the Web as a whole, which has used liberally the Adobe standard for video and Web design.
Jobs, Apple's longtime CEO who died last month after a battle with cancer, had long railed against Flash. Apple's mobile devices, including the iPhone and iPad, do not run Flash content.
Jobs' argument was that Flash was a processor- and battery-hogging standard that caused its devices to perform poorly.
Jobs had hoped for the proliferation of the HTML5 standard, which performs the same functions but can operate across platforms.
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Yay! That means I can expect that IT will get the constantly-updating the Adobe carp off of our PCs by 2017 or so.
 
Apple hated flash because it allowed for basic programs to run outside of itunes control. Plain and simple, they are control freaks.
 
My web guy also told me that flash made a site hard to find on google in that google does not like flash!
 
n20junkie said:
Apple hated flash because it allowed for basic programs to run outside of itunes control. Plain and simple, they are control freaks.
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Try playing a flash game on a touch interface.
 
SkyHog said:
I have. Frequently.

Works nicely.
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You have to have a game that's touch aware.

How do you move the cursor without a mouse? There's no "he's hovering his finger over here."
 
mikea said:
You have to have a game that's touch aware.

How do you move the cursor without a mouse? There's no "he's hovering his finger over here."
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Sure there is. In some instances, you tap once. In other instances, you tap and hold. It depends on how it was written.
 
n20junkie said:
Apple hated flash because it allowed for basic programs to run outside of itunes control. Plain and simple, they are control freaks.
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You can build some pretty capable apps using HTML5 and Javascript that run outside of the AppStore.
 
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