“Critics of Flash typically claim that Adobe’s technology comes with plenty of bugs and a huge overhead that takes a toll on hardware performance, which is especially painful in devices with limited processing horsepower. I have always been careful with those claims as Adobe may be able to fix Flash problems and it clearly sees enough pressure to make Flash a much better platform that can survive,” Gruener reports. “‘Survive’ may be a strong word, but if you think about it, the current debate has turned into a format war. We have HTML 5, which is generally praised as the next major evolutionary step for HTML that automatically questions the future of Flash. Conceivably, Flash could co-exist next to HTML 5, but if we look at the possibilities that are provided by HTML 5, it is entirely possible that Flash will be obsolete in the not distant future. It is what Steve Jobs said. Flash was great, but it’s really on its way out and it’s time to look for, in Jobs’ words, the next horse to ride.”
“It is a no-brainer to predict that Flash will live and die with content… The adult film industry was able to influence and help win format wars in the past. It was the critical factor when VHS won over Beta and it is an open secret that Blu-ray also gained an advantage over HD-DVD because of porn – as the Playstation 3 indirectly promoted sales of high-res adult movies in much greater volumes than the HD DVD. All major adult film studios in the U.S. stopped producing HD DVDs more than three months before Toshiba announced that it would halt the format,” Gruener reports. “There is a good chance that the adult film industry will have a say in the HTML 5-Flash battle as well.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Buh-bye shiteous Flash video. Oh, and have a nice evening, lazy Adobe ingrates.
Wow, that is an unexpected ally. I like the whole “next horse to ride” line whilst the discussion is mostly the adult film industry. Unintended innuendo?
@Allen
I always thought innuendo was an Italian suppository
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Allen:
Nintendo?
I want a bang bros app for my ipad
It was porn that put a VCR in every home. It was porn that brought broadband to the internet. And it will be porn that pounds the final nail into Flash’s coffin…
Let the sick, twisted puns begin!
Invest in the screen protector industry.
And porn continues to dominate network traffic… I just found out there was porn on you tube. Living in the stone age LOL.
I hope they do a bang-up job in this, and don’t just screw around, because good flash penetration would be good for us all…
was that good enough for you Bob?
Porn on flash sucks. You have to keep starting it over. No loop option
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I hope they do a bang-up job in this, and don’t just screw around, because a little less flash penetration would be good for us all…
Porn on YouTube?
Not that I’d know, but Youporn began porting to an “iPad/iPhone” friendly site some time ago
They are really sticking it to Adobe.
Yup, it will be Porn that ultimately causes the downfall of Flash. And if 3D TV has any chance at all, it will be due to the Porn industry. I can see it now, a bunch of middle aged dudes sitting in their basements, big ol’ 3D glasses on, pants down around their ankles, well you get the picture.
This is ridiculous to say that Blu-Ray won over HD DVD because of porn. Search the Internet archives, liars. It was HD DVD that had the backing of porn industry, not the other way around. And still it did not matter. The major reason why it did not matter was because majority of porn consumption happens over Internet. That is why porn may have some influence over Flash vs HTML5 war but it should not be overestimated.
@It is all lies
It’s true that at CES in Jan 2007 the “Industry” threw it’s support behind HD-DVD on the basis that it was easier/cheaper to produce (at the time). But not all porn companies were toeing the line at that point. And, by the end of 2007, the tide had turned, mainly because Blu-Ray manufacturing costs had begun to drop due to increased capacity:
Since then, the porn industry has, er.., embraced Blu-Ray pretty whole-heartedly, due to the increased content capacity and enhanced interactive features.
Links to back up my claims, lest you think I too am a “liar”:
Jan 8, 2006 – Porn Company Backs Blu-Ray
[url=”http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/35363-porn-industry-snuggling-up-to-blu-ray
“]Dec 20, 2007 – Porn Industry Snuggling Up To Blu-Ray[/url]
[url=”http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/14/porn-industry-turns-its-sexy-back-on-hd-dvd-format/
“]Jan 14, 2008 – Porn Industry Turns it’s Sexy Back on HD DVD[/url]
@It is all lies
Ooops. I really ought to learn html…
Links again:
Jan 8, 2006 – Porn Company Backs Blu-Ray
[url=”http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/35363-porn-industry-snuggling-up-to-blu-ray
“]Dec 20, 2007 – Porn Industry Snuggling Up To Blu-Ray[/url]
[url=”http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/01/14/porn-industry-turns-its-sexy-back-on-hd-dvd-format/
“]Jan 14, 2008 – Porn Industry Turns it’s Sexy Back on HD DVD[/url]
This will boost HTML5’s market penetration. Don’t be gentle.
I always knew Jobs would end up on top.
Could people please stop calling it Flash. It’s the flv video format that is being killed off and that’s fine with me.
Flash, the program, is still great for making vector cartoon style animations. Can anyone recommend another application that does vector animations?
Oh and what actually is HTML5 or Canvas? Apart from a bit of extra code in the source (sauce) Where a GUI application to help me create animations easily in it? I’m an artist, I’m lousy at coding.
I get great porn on my iPhone it must already be html5 I guess there are about three great free sites just google iPhone porn and bam start spanking lol
@Darren
Very good points to which I agree totally.
Unfortunately most of the readers here just want to lap up MDN’s (and others’) Flash vs. HTML5 crap in a blissful ignorance. Any interest in the facts of the matter went down the drain many, crappy MDN posts ago.
As for HTML5 killing Flash on the video front, check out YouTube’s recent explanation of why they aren’t dropping Flash video any time soon. I doubt you will see MDN reporting on this YouTube engineer blog post.
BEWARE !!! Facts ahead, think before you click:
http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html