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Quote: Originally Posted by sippincider This might seem counterintuitive, but my recent Apple-bashing here has been in defense of Apple. Call it tough love. I'm a big fanboy from the Apple II days as well. Apple has great stuff, but when I s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 But I don't think that could happen. I'm more and more positive Apple is not only against Flash because of performance - in fact I'd bet Apple is using Flash performance as excuse to axe it, but real reason …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas It's almost like anything passes for an argument to defend Apple's actions. The other thing that comes to mind about this statement is the opposite. It's almost like anything here passes for an argument to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tulkas It's almost like anything passes for an argument to defend Apple's actions. Seems like a mountain out of a molehill to me. I'd say "much ado about nothing", except that I think there is a very important eleme…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss That said, IBM and especially Motorola were always weak partners for Apple. They certainly had different objectives.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Woohoo! Do I sense the real purpose behind custom processors is content protection? Don't know about that. There are two distinct advantages that the custom silicon gives to Apple that I can think of. 1. Custo…
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Anybody care to explain why the need for porn apps on their phone? Just wondering.
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger Wow, Over 400 posts. Whether you think flash should or should not be included in Apple products, you cannot argue that the decision is not controversial.... Yeah, good call. I think it's attributable …
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Quote: Originally Posted by caliminius The article points what is probably the real reason that Apple doesn't want Flash on it's mobile devices: Flash competes directly with the App Store. It gives developers an alternative method of creating ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking First, why not let the market sort this out? If Flash is such a problem, then some company should be able to come in and develop a better alternative. Gazoobee had it right, you really are a troll. You wil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger However, the H.264 codex that Apple is pushing IS proprietary and your argument is again moot... Now if Apple would also stated H.264 is proprietary and we should not use it in conjunction with HTML5 you mig…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking What I don't really understand is why those reasons are sufficient to call for Flash's death, and the denial of other users' rights to use software and programs they want. The issue here is that Adobe refus…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking I don't understand your comment, but what I said applies equally well to Adobe as it does Apple, because it is a simple market share issue. As an arbitrary example, owning 50% of the mobile internet surfing m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking But here is the question that no one has really answered. Why does Flash have to die beyond the simplistic answer of it does not run well on a Mac? some people answer because it is proprietary. If people ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Not really. If the mobile market makes up a small percentage of the overall internet market (and I have no idea what the percentage is), then owning a big or small share of the mobile market is still irrelevant…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Agreed that Apple's share of the mobile market is huge. But that is not really the question, the question is what percentage of the ENTIRE web market is the mobile market. The original question was "if Apple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp So why do the trolls and Adobe even care what Apple does? That's the real question isn't it. Apple has absolutely no influence on the industry because of its miniscule market share. No one pays any attention t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp On the other hand Steve Jobs has made many statements in the past about the value of certain technologies only to adopt them later on. Maybe this is just a kick in the pants to Adobe to get with the plan. It wou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jerseymac There seem to be a lot of people here who have issues with flash and want it gone. So be it, but don't take it away until there is another option in place. Make Hulu and the rest work on another format then…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jerseymac The real reason you will not see Flash on the iPad is so Apple can force you to buy content on iTunes. It's a ploy. Nothing but FUD