Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad
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On a side note. I find the example very very funny. If Apple did indeed hurt Adobe's feelings, then I think the best way to say "You need me" is to show why. Gosh. Am I the only one who finds this example amazing on so many different levels?
1) Movies wont work 2) Flash sites wont work 3) Tv sites like Hulu wont work (based off of the example?) 4) Porn, what the internet is really really great for, wont work
I like sticking it to the man. I'm not one of those people who spend their life sticking it to the man, but I always find it humorous when other people do it. Especially one big company to the other. One big company to a country. Makes me happy to see people challenging and keeping others in check- so to speak.
I don't get why people hate Flash. Sure it's proprietary, but it was there first, doing something we all wanted before anyone else came around. And frankly it's still serving that purpose because HTML 5 still isn't ubiquitous enough.
It probably contributed to YouTube's success, and the general flourishing of online video. It's enabled rich browser based games. I think it contributes greatly to the advancement of the internet, if not by any other means than by encouraging the proliferation of rich applications.
Thanks in part to them HTML5 is seen as a blessing by many, even as late as it is.
Adobe show the flash player working!!!!!
I don't suppose Silverlight is going to get on the iPad either. It's how I started to watch Netflix streaming on OS X. I see now that it's used on the PC side too.
Compare that with Hollywood video, TV or the music industry. Is one movie or show really replaceable with any other or do you want a specific film, show or album.
So, by comparison they are a more competitive, freer market hence greater innovation.
The other fast mover is scripture, which is public domain and so finds its way onto each new medium very early on for similar reasons.
A lot of it is left over from the days of Beta/VHS. They really made those formats work.
(Google the obvious keywords if you need a link.)
Porn will start to use it too.
Adobe can call shit on Apple for games and applications (bleh! Flash apps) but not so much for video. HTML5 video is obviously way more open than Flash.
I'd guess that the iPad moved that date up quite a bit. And suddenly Flash-plug-in risks going the way of the Shockwave-plug-in: nice to have, but not really missed. And sites that depends on Flash for stupid eye-candy will see the drop in compatibility, and switch to stupid jQuery eye-candy.
JS+Canvas is nice, but it's not nearly performant enough yet, even given how unperformant Flash is.
http://nitobi.com/yohei/cube_defense_alpha/
This only works in the latest WebKit/Firefox developer builds but it's pretty awesome stuff. This would really eat into the reasons for Flash.
BOObies(No. 13 paid app)
Boob Party(No. 24 free app)
Tasty Pasties 18..(No. 45 free app)
Not surprisingly, the porn example has been yanked with an apology.
Also worth noting the original showed 10 example, not the four in this link, so the porn wasn't quite as obvious (1 of 10 v 1 of 4, and the final one at that).
Of course, this is all theoretical if you can't change what makes you happy—and, since psychological studies say that how much you can change your utility function is something that varies individual-to-individual, there will never be a widely-accepted belief that it's impossible to decide what you like, as there will always be some people who can.
The problem in many people's minds is not with the consumers of porn but with the creators or actors of porn, especially the women. Like a lot of other so-called sex work fields, many human rights advocates end up torn: on the one hand, it's a field where women can make money with a certain amount of independence; on the other hand, the field can be violent, unsafe (drug addiction is rampant, sexually transmitted diseases are a constant fear, etc.) and (arguably) is enormously degrading to the spirit and the bodies of the women it employs.
Anyhow, I think that people who want to clamp down on porn are generally worried about the producers rather than the consumers. (In fairness, one influential argument from Catherine MacKinnon argues that porn makes the men who consume it more likely to be violent towards women. But I think that argument is the exception not the rule.)
Porn will find ways to users, one or the other way anyway, so it's also pointless.
Their reasoning is probably that iPhone/iPad users are more likely to pay for the service, as they already do with songs, videos, and applications: this is one of the first results of this new closed world Apple is orchestrating for us, other companies will start to follow.
But... I'm starting to hope that the iPad will not be a success, as with iPhone the tech guys were mostly happy with it, as the constraints in the iPhone (let apart the approval process madness) are more or less acceptable for a phone. Instead power users mostly think at the iPad as a too limited device, as it is "almost" a computer but is limited in too many ways. Maybe if power users will not get an iPad this will have an effect in the whole market, as past successful apple product started to be popular among geeks first.
"You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again":
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cook...
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
Notice the missing image now. In my opinion, even a weaker stand than having it included.
There are many reasons to hate flash - it's proprietary, it's slow on anything other than Windows, it's sub-optimal on Windows compared to alternatives (such as just streaming video directly - Youtube HD being a case in point).
It's also something that runs a large part of the Internet. I went without Flash for 3 months and whilst my Internet experience didn't feel that much less after getting used to it, I did feel left out by not being able to watch Youtube, play games on newgrounds etc.
This is just a blog which showed several examples, 10 to be exact, including Hulu and Disney, to question Apple's claim of showing "real" internet, and all the fanboys see is the porn example.
It is the Apple fanboys who are playing the porn card, not Adobe.
The internet has many roots, but the main source of nutrients is from porn.
I had a kids games site, and MOST kid's games (or other forms of edutainments) moved to Flash so kids can play them without installing anything, paying, and getting viruses. I "claim" it played the kids card and iPad is not a kid-friendly device.
Edit: Although, I suppose it'd be more convenient than a laptop in various places throughout one's domicile.