Thank you Steve Jobs

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4 points·vijaydev··7 comments

As of September 11, 2010 Flash is still horrible on My Nexus One. Sure I can casually watch a South Park episode, but the Nexus One heats up like an original MacBook Pro.

Now I rarely enabled Flash on it.

Until the day when Flash is running without taxing the hardware and battery life, I am using it next to none.

So what you're saying is that the statement in the linked article, that:

"Jobs claimed that Flash is not fit for smart phones. He claimed that flash drains battery and performance is really bad. He might have been correct, but not anymore."

is an outright lie?

I've been recommending against Flash since the beginning, just because I know blind people and others with accessibility needs for whom Flash made certain parts of the web unusable.

Have to disagree with Flash running well on mobile. I had Flash enabled on my Evo for about two days and casually browsed Flash enabled sites; to say the least performance was horrendous and my battery was quickly depleted.

I did find the lavish praise for Adobe near the end to be a bit much. Every product that was listed was an acquisition by Adobe, the vast majority of which originally came from Macromedia! (Photoshop I'll give them credit for, since they acquired it so long ago that they've had more to do with its success by now.)

Ohhh wow, and this all comes from a guy who has these banners on it's blog:

"Tour de Flex", "We love freedom(Adobe)", "Flash community"

The problem is that this moron simply states that all flash issues were fixed which is no more than a damn lie from a zealot who wants to promote his platform.

Rant/linkbait

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