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Dear Steve Jobs,

Dear Steve,

Make a Nano sized watch that connects to my phone via BT and shows that i have email and scrolls text messages...

Your friend in Christ,

Clint
 
Dear midwestfisherman;

I appreciate your request. However in my benevolent wisdom I must decline it.

Adobe's Flash Player is a poor fit for our well engineered products. Paramount to its shortcomings is that Flash content currently is poorly suited to our multi-touch interface, damaging the user experience. Furthermore even with optimizations and hardware acceleration, Flash requires significant computing resources to run - our iOS devices can meet these requirements, however we do not believe the significant hit to battery life is worth it, as Flash's presence in web advertisements means it would often be running whenever Safari is running. Finally, Flash player has been a significant source of security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, and other devices. Even with sandboxing we do not believe we could completely isolate Flash, and we are not willing to compromise by introducing the potential for further security exploits on iOS.

In short, Flash is not a product we believe has a future. The future of the world wide web is in open technologies such as HTML5, where we have been a big proponent of the HTML5 "Video" tag alongside the industry standard H.264 video codec. By equipping our iOS devices as they are today, we are prepared for the future of the internet.

-Namaste
Steven P. Jobs
 
Flash requires significant computing resources to run - our iOS devices can meet these requirements, however we do not believe the significant hit to battery life is worth it, as Flash's presence in web advertisements means it would often be running whenever Safari is running.
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Flash does require a beefy device to run acceptably, whether the iPad could keep up with some of the crappier written Flash sites is still up for debate, however there's no reason it has to run all of the time. I'm sure Apple could manage to include the equivalent of the "on-demand" option for plugins that Android browsers have had for years.

Finally, Flash player has been a significant source of security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, and other devices. Even with sandboxing we do not believe we could completely isolate Flash, and we are not willing to compromise by introducing the potential for further security exploits on iOS.
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Again, with an on-demand option the user wouldn't be at risk of Flash exploits unless they explicitly ask for it.

The future of the world wide web is in open technologies such as HTML5, where we have been a big proponent of the HTML5 "Video" tag alongside the industry standard H.264 video codec. By equipping our iOS devices as they are today, we are prepared for the future of the internet.
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I don't think video has been an argument for Flash in years now, every major site with Flash videos also includes H.264 encoded versions for non-flash capable devices already. And you can't really call intentionally shunning a technology with significant marketshare and that will most likely maintain those levels for the foreseeable future, "prepared for the future of the internet". Unless you're only talking about Apple's little, closed corner of the Internet. =)

Don't get me wrong, I would love for Flash to disappear overnight but I know that's not going to happen and there's very few, if any, technical reasons for Apple to keep fighting Flash support. The real reasons are most likely personal, financial and-or philosophical differences between Apple and Adobe.
 
Sigh, why can't people understand this isn't going to happen. In the amount of time since the lack of flash announcement on iOS devices there has been no movement whatsoever from Apple on anything flash related, yet Adobe and other developers have already started making tools that will convert flash to HTML5. So, what do you think the reaction to this would be from Steve Jobs?
 
flash needs to die and we'll all be better off once that's over with. I'd be upset if Apple added flash support when all websites should just let go of it right now and go HTML5.

Only plus side to flash is that if you get flashblock that removes 80% of the shit on the www.

(Yea it does bother me that I can't view ************ on my mobile device but hey, they'll work that out soon enough.).
 
ViRGE said:
Dear midwestfisherman;

I appreciate your request. However in my benevolent wisdom I must decline it.

Adobe's Flash Player is a poor fit for our well engineered products. Paramount to its shortcomings is that Flash content currently is poorly suited to our multi-touch interface, damaging the user experience. Furthermore even with optimizations and hardware acceleration, Flash requires significant computing resources to run - our iOS devices can meet these requirements, however we do not believe the significant hit to battery life is worth it, as Flash's presence in web advertisements means it would often be running whenever Safari is running. Finally, Flash player has been a significant source of security vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, and other devices. Even with sandboxing we do not believe we could completely isolate Flash, and we are not willing to compromise by introducing the potential for further security exploits on iOS.

In short, Flash is not a product we believe has a future. The future of the world wide web is in open technologies such as HTML5, where we have been a big proponent of the HTML5 "Video" tag alongside the industry standard H.264 video codec. By equipping our iOS devices as they are today, we are prepared for the future of the internet.

-Namaste
Steven P. Jobs
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badb0y said:
Dear midwestfisherman,

No

-Steve Jobs
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Dear Steve,

Thank you very little!
 
I just installed a Flash update on my laptop after 1/2 hour of trying to get a video to play.

Works great after the update. Screw that on my iPad. I want it to just work...
 
Nothinman said:
Flash does require a beefy device to run acceptably, whether the iPad could keep up with some of the crappier written Flash sites is still up for debate, however there's no reason it has to run all of the time. I'm sure Apple could manage to include the equivalent of the "on-demand" option for plugins that Android browsers have had for years.
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Please... my girlfriend's two year old Motorola Droid can run Flash with no problems. Today's tablets and smart phones are easily three or four times faster than that relic.
 
ultimatebob said:
Please... my girlfriend's two year old Motorola Droid can run Flash with no problems. Today's tablets and smart phones are easily three or four times faster than that relic.
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True, and most Flash stuff is optimized for a mouse click and interaction. How do you do that on a tablet?
 
Flash does indeed need to die, and I say this as someone who likes Google more than Apple. It's slow, kills performance and battery. The sooner it's gone, the better, though I appreciate Google supporting it on Android.
 
ultimatebob said:
Please... my girlfriend's two year old Motorola Droid can run Flash with no problems. Today's tablets and smart phones are easily three or four times faster than that relic.
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Sure, because all Flash sites perform exactly the same as the ones your gf has looked at on her Droid...
 
I love the apple mentality: Steve will get it to work, soon, someday, some year....Please, you guys will wait for a flash alternitive long after steve is dead, in the meantime, un non-sheep will continue to enjoy our flash content, resource hog or not.
 
Oyeve said:
I love the apple mentality: Steve will get it to work, soon, someday, some year....Please, you guys will wait for a flash alternitive long after steve is dead, in the meantime, un non-sheep will continue to enjoy our flash content, resource hog or not.
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I don't think that there is anyone that thinks that Steve or anyone else at Apple gives a flip about getting Flash 'working' on an iOS device.
 
Oyeve said:
I love the apple mentality: Steve will get it to work, soon, someday, some year....Please, you guys will wait for a flash alternitive long after steve is dead, in the meantime, un non-sheep will continue to enjoy our flash content, resource hog or not.
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Just as bad as you "non-sheep" Android people thinking you're on a high horse of independent thinking just because of the type of phone you own. lul. Goes both ways and the worse are the people on the extremes on each side making ludicrous statements like this.
 
while I hate flash as much as the next guy, I find it silly that they did not implement it on the ipad. Guess they know that people will buy it anyway. Hell, the tablet would not even have to do anything, and people would still have paid 500 bucks for it.

If you want to be able to view all of the internet, instead of just parts of it, the Blackberry Playbook or any other tablet out there should do the trick.
 
I played with a Playbook in the store for quite a while and while the browser is pretty awesome, some of the flash content is REALLY annoying.

There's no way to do rollovers with a touch screen, and I ended up clicking on a lot of the ads by accident because they triggered when I put my finger on them when I was trying to grab the screen and drag it around to scroll.
 
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