“What wasn’t good enough for Steve Jobs seems just fine for Microsoft, as it takes this opportunity to embed a version of Adobe’s streaming video technology into its future mobile Web browsers, right alongside Adobe’s rival Silverlight,” Scott M. Fulton reports for BetaNews.
MacDailyNews Take: What else is new? “Good enough” (even when it isn’t) is Microsoft’s mantra. Apple doesn’t settle for “good enough.”
Fulton continues, “”More and more, Microsoft is making a very visible effort to play nice, or at least nicer, by making room for its rivals alongside its own technology. This morning, it let Adobe hail the latest move rather than horde the megaphone, announcing that Adobe is licensing its Flash Lite mobile graphics platform to Microsoft for use, apparently, in a future mobile Web browser.”
Full article here.
Gabriel is right. The only time my G4 Al Powerbook’s fan comes on is when I’m watching videos, as the CPU is working its butt off decoding the codec. I can see what negative effect that would have for the iPhone’s or iPod Touch’s battery life and processor temperature. Apple knows what it’s doing.
Flash has been exploited so thoroughly for annoying ad animations that it’s almost useless. I’m so glad I found the etc/hosts hack that was posted on MDN. I don’t have to see ads anymore, but can still see Flash on sites when I want to.
ewww fleshlight. So wrong.
Still and always the same fools:
– Neglected to pay for have Flash licence for IE
– Jump on it just to play with Apple’s choices
Dummy, follish idiots!
M$ is realy deserves to be erased from earth’s ground!
Flash video must die. Nasty. This is what happens when a company leverages their massive install base to push their junky proprietary formats. Yeah sure they support H264 now, but it is still dripping with proprietary special sauce.
My Windows mobile phone is slow enough and crashes already to be almost unusable. This seems to be either a desperate attempt to fend off the iPhone/Google assault or an attempt to check all boxes.
Not using flash is a big mistake. Most video sites are already in flash. H264 is nice, but like Mp3’s flash is ubiquitous. There is no use in “punishing” the mac crew just to prove a point.
Flash is a resource sucking hog. Even on a Mac Pro.
Well fanbois check into this article http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2623 specifically this quote “Whether Jobs is right remains to be seen, but the half billion devices that already use Flash technology may put a few holes in his argument. It would seem that Apple is in kind of a bind. The early adopters and gadget geeks have all gotten their iPhones, and now competitors are lining up with similar products, some coming in at a much lower price than the iPhone.”
Seems like someone likes the Flash Lite version. Oh yeah that would be the 500000 customers that already have it on the mobile devices. Now tell me again how many Iphones you bois put out so far….. 3 or 4 million. ROFL
Damn you fanbois make this too easy.
iPhone doesn’t need Flash…no one “needs” Flash. There are better ways to do what Flash does on the client side. Look at the Apple website, all that action and not one shred of Flash that I can see. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Macromedia found a way to get Flash on lots of machines by creating a very light weight player that downloads without hardly any bother. It snowballed from there. Now it seems that Adobe is exploiting it for all it is worth. I was hoping that they would have turned Flash into a development tool that could export things like SVG and MPEG4 interactive content but they decided to go for the big money instead by keeping it closed.
What a shame.