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4 pages of posts complaining about not being able to download Wobble iBoobs from the app store. Oh the humanity! Really though, this is all very much over the top in my view. Apple is not looking to play the role of anyone's mother here, in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Overall an excellent post, and very well put. However, if Adobe made the decision that Mac was not worth the effort, is that a reason to kill it off if it runs reasonably well on other systems, and given my wif…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wraithofwonder Flash is a piece of... hey, perhaps this is one of those rare situations where we ought to give kudos to Microsoft? If open standards don't spook Adobe into remaking flash, Microsoft eating some of Adobe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking I do wonder why it is entirely Adobe's issue to fix. Let's be honest, Apple has what, 7% of the computer market. So, theoretically Adobe should be required to spend large amounts of capital and effort to fix s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Personally, I think it is dumb that SJ won't allow Flash on the iPad, but it does protect the revenue stream. The comment about revenue stream is a misnomer (possibly striving for mythical status). Apple's re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Amdahl Wait, isn't H.264 the one that is patented and requires licensing? It is an industry standard codec. This from WikiPedia: Quote: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a standard for video compression. The final drafting…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Not a troll at all. At my lab, which is all mac, I probably own $25-30K worth of Apple computers. I have an iPhone, and have had several iPods in the past. I like their products. That doesn't mean I have gone…
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Quote: Originally Posted by grking Just so I understand, because flash does not work on the Mac well, it has to go away. In other words, the computer world has to do what Steve Jobs says? It is the MacWay or the HighWay? Exactly.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gazoobee This is not "a response to Steve Jobs." It's an unrelated, and much maligned in the blogosphere (for poor logic), article from about a week ago actually. And one that I couldn't read because I'm not re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ghostface147 Whether flash is supported or not, I would like to know if Apple would ever seriously work with Adobe to optimize it. I am sure Adobe wants to do it, but will Apple help them? I doubt it. This is an i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iDave Just curious ? do you know there are other browsers? Camino, Chrome, Omniweb, Opera and SeaMonkey are the ones I mix up. Seems the only ones I see discussed are Safari and Firefox. Sure I'm aware that there a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by davidT interesting. he does claim he had the same problems using firefox. either way it is surprising that in 2010 we are having problems rendering a webpage, for whatever reasons. flash, mac/pc, firefox/safari, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone 'dude' I doubt you have ever programmed a single line of code in your life. There are dozens if not hundreds of PhDs working on Flash, Actionscript, Air and Flex at Adobe that would probably take offense by you…
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Nice dig at Verizon in the features table.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone My opinions are my own and... Flash is the best programing tool available? Are you joking? Flash is a piece of shit and you know it. You may indeed make money from it, but you might want to consider brus…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DdubRes79 Everyone breathe in, now exhale. This matter comes down to user numbers and resources. As wonderful as our Mac computers are they are still the vast minority of global users. Adobe has no incentive to spen…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone That might happen about the same time that fax machines are no longer found in offices. Right now you would be hard pressed to find an IBM Selectric in an office (although we do have one) so sure someday, but I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer In 1997 us NeXT engineers told Adobe, Microsoft and Macromedia that Carbon [a transitional API] would be built to ease their transition to Cocoa [Openstep APIs modernized for the PowerPC platform then] and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone What is really illogical about these Flash haters is that they are probably perfectly content to have WoW use up 200% CPU all night long. But if Adobe bought Warcraft it would instantly become the most wretched …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sranger First, Flash workes very well on both my Macbook Pro and on my Mac Mini. I have virtually no problems and I am using the Flash 10.1 beta. Second, Do you really think that a switch to HTML5 would is a…