flash

When the iPhone first came out all you heard was “Where the hell is Flash?” Then you’d hear about all the reasons Flash couldn’t be on the iPhone. How much Flash sucked. How much flash powered websites sucked and so on. There were good points on both sides of the debate.

The odd thing is that you don’t hear people talking about Flash on the iPhone anymore. It could be that people just got tired of wasting pixels on the topic or it could be that the App Store has satisfied most users needs. Sure the App Store doesn’t have a way for you to navigate Flash based websites but it does give you a lot of options when it comes to one of the big reasons people use Flash and that reason is games. Whether you’re a fan of word games or those tower defense games there’s a great chance you can find a app close enough to your fave Flash version somewhere in the App Store. If you can get it from the App Store and use it anytime there isn’t a real compelling reason to have Flash on the iPhone.

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You can’t mention “Flash” and “iPhone” in the same breath without people getting a little huffy. It is honestly surprising how passionate people can be about not having Flash on the iPhone. Passion aside people have a lot of reasons not to have Flash on the iPhone.

While Flash would be nice on my iPhone, I’ll be damned if I want Safari crashing every time it comes to a Flash-based web site because of the poorly developed plugin software.
D9

That is a moderate approach to the issue. D9 is willing to trade stability for the lack of Flash. Other points revolve around how slow Flash is on OS X. Some people maintain that it will max out a Quad core Mac Pro (when I experimented with various Flash intesive sites my machines experienced only a moderate bump in CPU usage. I tried it on a MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac 3.0, and PowerMac G5 with similar results for each machine. I know, I know I own too many Macs). Then there is the issue of how it would run on the iPhone. The iPhone’s processor is slower than a full… more...