“Much of the damage to Android has been done by OS and device fragmentation,” Electronista reports.
Electronista reports, “iOS devices were meanwhile helped by the BBC’s decision early on to use raw H.264 video and a native app. The format reduces the overhead to where even a 2007-era iPhone can play videos, and the approach is largely independent of any one iOS version. Battery use may also be lighter due to a reduced dependence on the main processor compared to Flash.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If anyone outside of Microsoft would know better, it’d be the lazy ingrates at Adobe: GIGO. Having Adobe’s shitastic Flash on your phone isn’t a feature, it’s a handicap. Hey, wanna kill 5 minutes? Launch Photoshop.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “James W.” and “elder norm” for the heads up.]
Flash is slow on the Mac because it is ported from Windows code and is not optimized to run on OS X. The got just enough of the code converted to run, but the cpu spends way too much time bypassing lines of code that are useless. If Adobe were serious, they would rewrite Flash for the Mac so that it is as efficient as it is on Windows.
But they won’t. And that’s why SJ keeps it off the iOS platform.
@ Out To Launch
Try this. In the “Finder,” locate “Go” and press on that. You will find the “Utilities” folder and open it and double click on “Disk Utility.” A large box will appear that reads “Select a disk, volume or image.” Select one from the box on the left. Then simply press “Repair Disk Permissions.” If you’ve never done that, chances are numerous things can be fixed and it just might straighten some of those that don’t. Repair permissions each time before you do a “Software Update.”
@ silverhawk
You know, what Out To Launch says is not to be taken at face value
Out To Launch should just get a Mac.
BananaMoon
There are probably too many Mac users who do not know about “repair permissions.”
Flash has become a monster, and I think Adobe can’t decide which feature to pull out to make it mobile phone ready. If they they do pull out features, it won’t be able to play all the flash content, sorta like crapping on their own faces when they are trying so hard to push out their latest desktop flash. In my opinion, Adobe has painted itself into a corner but too proud to admit it.
I don’t think there is a way out for adobe.
Wanna kill 10 minutes? Launch iTunes.
I’ve got about 250GB in my iTunes library, and the app launches in 10 seconds on my old Quad G5, and about three seconds on my new MacBook Pro.
If iTunes is taking a long time to launch for you, you should take your Mac into an Apple store to find out what’s wrong with it. That’s definitely not normal.
If you’re talking about running it on Windows, then of course all bets are off. Your machine is probably too busy trying to swap copies of its botnet viruses with your neighbors to do anything useful.
-jcr
@ silverhawk
[There are probably too many Mac users who do not know about “repair permissions.”]
I agree on this point. I even surprised some by showing them the Preferences panes but I don’t think Out To Launch can be counted among these.
Interesting discussion: Flash vs iTunes performance? Just to add to the chatter, my son has a Mac Pro with over 3TB ( yes, T as in TaraBytes) of media. iTunes comes up in less than 30 sec. So, my question is: How long does it take Flash to launch 3TB of data? Silly question? Hummmmm
Given the need for periodic repair of permissions [whatever they are], why doesn’t Apple provide the option to make it an automatic process or one that occurs periodically on startup?
DJ and others. I highly recommend PIXELMATOR.
Try it our and you might just dump PS and Adobe.
Our shitetastic IT support company has the following policy for Windows PCs – if they can’t fix a problem in one hour they completely wipe the HD and reinstall Windows. Then they spend hours reinstalling the anti-virus, Office, Sage, all the other shite. Then they spend hours updating Windows…
I just sit at my Mac that has been running every day for the last 3 years and have a smug grin that I think it justly deserved.
Want a computer that works? Get a Mac.
too bad all internet video isn’t done with QuickTime. ;p
rhoytink, Tried out Pixelmator a couple of weeks ago: a bit like a cheap pared-down Photoshop (which I’ve used since PS2 and stopped updating at PSSC coz the later versions are as flakey as only Adobe knows how).
I hope Android users will forever rely on Flash.
Y’all really need to lose this standing anti-Adobe diatribe. As a pro photographer / occasional designer, I really like Photoshop, InDesign & Illustrator. On my Mac! As a photographer, I don’t care what you say or offer as photo-editing alternates, when I send pix to clients, they need to look good in Photoshop on the client’s computer. I use it to reliably and efficiently process my images starting at 130 MB and up to 3 or 4 GB in size. As for graphics work, InDesign beats the daylights out of Quark. And there’s nothing else even close. I’m not going back to windows – or to quark. And yes, it helps to occasionally clean out your system.