Most important missing feature in new iPhone
Picture above is the new iPhone 4G hardware prototype with iPhone OS 4.0 software. Can you guess the most important feature this iPhone will be missing? Well, it’s not really a surprise but the new iPhone will NOT support Adobe Flash Player. In fact, Apple has even started placing more strict rules against iPhone apps created with Adobe’s software.
It’s clear that Apple has something against Adobe, but we don’t really know what it is. Most of the web uses Flash Player for videos, games, and other content. I personally believe that Adobe doesn’t want anyone creating Flash Player apps, because that may mean less revenue for them from the App Store. Whatever Apple is doing seems selfish. At the very least they can give users the option to choose whether or not they want Flash, but they don’t want to. They want to control whatever software users install on their iDevice. This is exactly the reason most people jailbreak! If Flash matters to you, I recommend you get an Android phone instead like the HTC Evo 4G.
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You said Adobe was selfish & should give their customers an option when you meant Apple.
Fixed. Thanks!
You also have Adobe not wanting people to create things using Adobe software because it will hurt Adobes app store? Instead of Apple…confusing names? Maybe thats the reason? :P
Oh, but it’s got the best kind of flash around. A Flash for it’s Camera. Oh, you mean Adobe Flash, that sucks.
You seem like a Flash convert. I find surfing without flash in the web so much nicer on safari than with Flash on my PC. It takes forever, and sometimes it’s just buggy and frustrating. Depends on how it’s written for the site, but it usually is more of a pain than it’s worth.
And Apple being selfish? Two Arguments. One, so is Adobe. They want to monopolize the web with their pain in the arse code and painful UI. Two, if Apple is selfish but gives me a better experience, than why not?
And keep in mind that their will be phishing (already) and more viruses to come to damper your UI and wallet when it comes to android.
I’m going to keep my iphone, thank you.
You sound like a brainwashed cultist. I cannot beileve apple has fanboys like you actually convinced their products are better without flash. I’ve got news for you the internet uses flash and it is inconvenient to not have it.
I just bought an Ipad, and all the sites I visited the video worked fine, that included, ESPN, Youtube, ABC, NHL.com, and many more. The flash argument is kind of a mood point considering most sites are making an ipad version. AND don’t even mention farmville, cause i don’t play that shit…. boring, and the games never give you enough to just keep playing for free, eventually they get money from you.
Someone has it backwards–
it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264
(all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard,
while Adobe’s FLASH is closed and proprietary.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People defending flash have no clue! Flash is the only video type you have to actually download crap on your device to run it. well said carol
About time. Why is this not bigger news?! G4 reported this days ago, and all I can find on the big sites like engadget and gizmodo are tiny blurbs (if anything). looks like they’re riding the apple train. useless biased news. ty for reporting this quick
Of course Apple has something against Adobe. Back in the early days of Apple’s renaissance, Adobe had nearly abandoned Mac development, giving users half-assed ports of older versions of Windows software months after Windows versions were released. Sometimes Mac users didn’t get software at all. Now that Apple is one of the big players with clout, Adobe is desperate to give Apple platforms priority, but Apple won’t give Adobe the time of day.
There’s another reason Apple keeps Flash off the iPhone OS. I’ve seen Flash on other mobile platforms and it’s an unruly pig – a bloated, buggy, crashy piece of crap. Absolutely terrible. The iPhone OS is about a smooth user experience and if Flash was on the device, people wouldn’t realize Flash is the problem, they’d see Apple as the culprit. Adobe has finally conceded that Apple will never allow Flash on the iPhone OS and has abandoned development.
There is an effect from all this: some corporations (Virgin being the first, AFAIK) are taking Flash off their sites to be compatible with Apple technology and converting to HTML5 for video and interactive content. Apple could be responsible for making Flash obsolete. Best revenge ever.
I just love unbiased, objective posts like this. Of course battery life or Flash being a closed, proprietary system has absolutely nothing to do with Apple’s decision: they’re just irascible jerks!
Flash is not supported on the iPhone even if it’s jailbroken.
People who say the “fanboys” thing are just fags. Seriously cause you like a good product all the sudden your a fanboy? I owned shitty PC’s for years… virus after virus. THEN crappy windows based mobile phones through t-mobile, and verizon only to have them run so slow and half the time calls wouldn’t even come through. Three years after the launch of the Iphone I just bought my first one, 3 months ago… best phone I have ever had!!! I used to think Apple products were overpriced.. that was ofcourse until now that i own one. Now i have just realized you get what you pay for. If you take the cheap android phone they give ya when ya sign up for cell service (and they even offered me a second one for free), then ya get exactly that, a cheap phone. AND… I’ll be purchasing a Macbook pro this weekend! SO if that makes me a fanboy, atleast I won’t have worry about my computer actually working.
This post is garbage. Do your homework before spouting off about shit you don’t understand.
The reason that flash will never make it to any of apple’s touchscreen devices is because the mouse/keyboard based controls of flash applications simply does not translate into a touch screen environment. There is simply too much reliance on hovering/rolling events to control an application, when all that is possible on a touchscreen is touch and drag.
Apple has gone on record saying that a flash application (hulu for example) would need to work a major rewrite to get their application to work on a touchscreen, and if they are going to do a rewrite for an apple device, why not just do a rewrite to use not flash?
I am a flex developer and i completely understand why my software will never make it onto a touch screen.