Good News for you Apple owners!!

[adrian29uk]

Don't know if this is old news for you, but after getting my daily dose of the Daily Mail I found this

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2036514/Flash-pan-Adobe-bring-Flash-iPhone-iPad--asking-Apple.html

 

[moggy]

Just run a flash site on my iPad and it works

 

[ees complicated no?]

thank god !!!!

 

[tinx]

Most websites won't pay the $4500 for media server though so it won't make a huge difference.

The only thing I feel I am missing out on with not having flash is access to seagulls player on the ipad which would be rather nice.

 

[Randsta]

industry insiders describing the new solution as a 'fudge' - shouldnt it be toffee then you'd have toffee apples?

 

[Easy 10]

Shouldn't NSC be closed down for a period of time, to enable us all to properly contemplate and absorb this news ?

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Seagulls player DOES work on an ipad using photon web browser, even the live commentary. As long as you have wifi. Live commentary on 3G cuts out frequently, I've found.

 

[Arthur]

Struggling to see how this is good news!?!?

Apple left out flash support for a very good reason.

 

[Springal]

Sounds to me they are trying to keep their Flash customers, rather than doing Apple a 'favour'

 

[tinx]

Seagulls player DOES work on an ipad using photon web browser, even the live commentary. As long as you have wifi. Live commentary on 3G cuts out frequently, I've found.

Ooh thanks for this I will give it a go.

 

[adrian29uk]

Struggling to see how this is good news!?!?

Apple left out flash support for a very good reason.

What was the reason for this?

 

[Arthur]

What was the reason for this?

It's very buggy and it hogs allot of memory. Apple didn't want their apps/browser crashing constantly as the chances are the end user would lay the blame firmly at apple's door.

Would seem that this latest development only appears to affect flash video and not sites. Is the seagulls world site fully flash based or is it just the videos?

That said I can't see many sites wanting to stump up the $4.5k for the software in the first place as surely most things (porn aside) are available on YouTube which has a native app??

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

What was the reason for this?

That flash has no real standards, it hogs memory, often causes dekstop browsers to crash and would reduce battery life.

... oh and Adobe and Apple were being stubborn assholes about it..

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Seagulls player DOES work on an ipad using photon web browser, even the live commentary. As long as you have wifi. Live commentary on 3G cuts out frequently, I've found.

And I'm using the Skyfire browser on the iPod Touch and it works for a lot of sites (not all, but quite a few).

 

[LukeOwen]

do you need a app of does this work in safari?

 

[Manx Shearwater]

Skyfire is an app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Its essentially a web browser, so an alternative to Safari. Except that on a lot of flash sites, it will stream the video to your device. Not all sites, but a lot.

Its £1.99, less than the price of a piglets pie.

 

[beorhthelm]

It's very buggy and it hogs allot of memory. Apple didn't want their apps/browser crashing constantly as the chances are the end user would lay the blame firmly at apple's door.

no thats not the reason. though i agree whole heartedly there are problems with Flash resource managment, more due to developers than Flash itself. the real reason for Apple blocking Flash was so that they could control distribution of apps through their App store. web pages with Flash driven games and apps bypass all that, so no money for St Steve to buy turtlenecks.

 

[Arthur]

no thats not the reason. though i agree whole heartedly there are problems with Flash resource managment, more due to developers than Flash itself. the real reason for Apple blocking Flash was so that they could control distribution of apps through their App store. web pages with Flash driven games and apps bypass all that, so no money for St Steve to buy turtlenecks.

Well I'm sure there is an element of truth in that statement but why haven't the developers flocked towards the accepted alternatives? Because no money for "St Steve" means no money for the devs either!