If Apple’s position on Flash wasn’t perfectly clear, Steve Jobs has taken the time to write a 1500-word open letter regurgitating the party lines at length. In a word (or three), Apple’s position is “Flash sucks unwashed balls”.
And the tussle over Flash keeps on tussling: Now Apple’s publicly sniping at Adobe.
Thanks to a change in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program Licence Agreement, Adobe has decided to abandon the iPhone app building technology included in Flash CS5.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, in an interview with FOX Business, has revealed that Flash 10.1 support for WebOS and BlackBerry phones would arrive slightly later than expected in the second half of 2010.
Flash “evangelist” Lee Brimelow responds to Apple cutting Flash developers off at the knees for iPhone. Adobe makes him change it. The sentence left in its place? Well that kind of says everything. Things, they are complicated. [Flash Blog]
Looks like Flash 10.1 is emerging from the beta depths and almost ready for prime time. This is particularly good news for you owners of netbooks with Broadcom Crystal HD accelerators, since now you’ll be able to watch HD Flash video.
There’s been a lot made of the fact that the iPad doesn’t support Flash. But how much of an effect does it have on day-to-day browsing? I snagged screenshots of 20 top websites so you can see for yourself.
An enterprising Mac blogger has been shirking work and poking around CBS’ website, and when watching an episode of CSI noticed something strange. It appears CBS is updating its website with HTML5, ready for the iPad launch.
newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/-p-RZAwQq0E&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );
Adobe’s got a video out that proves the HP Slate can run Flash and AIR just fine, thankyouverymuch. To which we say: No kidding! It’s a Windows 7 device. What’s of some concern might be HP’s own marketing clip:
