As promised, here is my first blog post of the semester. The purpose of this blogpost is to ensure that all the students have signed up for the Feedburner email updates, and they are receiving them.
So for extra credit, here is an assignment. As you may have already heard, there is a war going on between Apple and Adobe, and HTML 5 is being thrown into the discussion, perhaps as a shield to deflect some of the ire coming from the supporters of each. Apple claims that they are not including Flash in their iPhone and iPad platforms because it is too buggy, and causes them to crash. Adobe claims to be ready, willing, and able to support anything Apple has to offer them. Either way, it seems like HTML 5 is going to be the new web standard.
Here are 3 articles you should read first:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/02/open_access_to_content_and_app.html
After reading these articles, post a comment here, and it will count towards your final class participation grade.
I believe Flash shouldn’t be used as an awful program. Without Flash I say the whole internet experience would be rather bland. HTML5 is giving us the chance to code our sites with less a hassle when adding video or audio content. Apple shouldn’t mock Adobe with any negativity about its programs. Besides, as we all know, Adobe products run better on a Mac anyway so why try and downgrade such power. Apple should allow for Flash to run on the iPhone or else Google will take over the world! You just have to keep up with competition.
Great point Ann, I agree that Adobe products do run well on Mac OS but i understand why Steve Jobs doesn”t want to integrate Flash into their products. Apple doesn’t want to be known for the OS to be constantly crashing like other OS. They want to keep up with high standards. As far as HTML5 i think that it might take a while for the world to adapt to it in an instant because everyone depends on flash to make web applications run smoothly and more interactive. I am an iphone user and i would surely love to have flash atleast to experience the feel of browsing .
In all honesty, I really feel that Apple is holding back on including flash on some of their products because they are probably planning on reintroducing new updated versions of their products with flash as a feature sometime in the future. If you think on it, they’ve done similar things in the past already.
When they first introduced the iPhone they didn’t include video recording, video and picture messaging, and cut copy and paste. These were features that most regular basic “non-smart” phones already had. Its not like the technology wasn’t already out there. Similarly, Adobe says they have the technology available for all other majors phones so it’s kind of sounding like deja vu for me.
At the end of the day they are a company that is out to make money just like everyone else.
I must say there are times where I’m trying to go on a site using my i-phone to see a video or view a page but I can’t because of the Flash incompatibility Issue. Seeing how Apple doesn’t have interest in allowing it’s products to view flash content is sort of a shame, because they’re not stopping only me but many others from viewing pages to the full potential. So what if it causes the apple products to crash, they could of just implement a button to turn on or off flash content, at least the option would be there. I’m sure eventually further down the line there will be improvements to the way flash content is delivered on the smaller devices, and from the looks of it HTML 5 is “New” has a long way to go until web developers are able to make full usage of it. For the meantime it would’ve been better in my opinion if flash was enabled for most apple products, at least until HTML 5 was fully integrated and well developed.
Well I feel that apple does have a point in saying that flash is too buggy and causes computers to crash, because that usually happens when working on a flash file that requires a lot of complicated actionscript code. If adobe can find away to minimize or eliminate that problem then maybe this whole discussion wouldn’t be happening because it seems to me that with every new Flash software that comes out there seems to be a different usability issue.
I personally like flash most of the time, but it’s kind of like a bad commercial you see it once, and then it just gets annoying. If it’s a good commercial you just can’t get enough!!
Unfortunately Flash is buggy, whether Adobe wants to admit it or not. With the release of the iPad the infighting has not let us. i just read an article in my local newspaper titled, “Steve Jobs says Flash is “unfit” for iPhone”. He cited “reliability, security and performance,” and the fact that Flash was designed “for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers” as some of the reasons Apple will continue to keep the program off its devices. He further states that In his rebuttal, Jobs said that with an abundance of media outlets offering their content on iPhones and iPads, “Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of Web content.” I believe that the market will gravitate toward what works best and what serves the consumer best, regardless what Apple or Adobe want. If you don’t believe that ask someone in the US automobile market or as of late Toyota!!! See the article: http://www.newsday.com/business/technology/steve-jobs-says-flash-is-unfit-for-iphone-1.1887553
Apple has started a war that affects directly and primarily its clients. As Google, Apple has entered the phone business also but they are impeding clients from using a popular software as Flash, which most of us are so used to see. Technology changes to make our lives easier. HTML5 is coming and Adobe has promised “to adding more capabilities to [their] software around HTML as it evolves”. Apple should also give their customers the software they need as technology advances.