Apple recently announced their iPad which does not include Adobe Flash player, which is a bold move considering it will negatively impact consumer’s web browsing experience. Steve Jobs himself demoed the New York Times website with blank boxes that normally render flash content.
This move along with continued non-support of Flash on mobile devices will certainly affect organization’s usage of Flash on public facing websites, which will ultimately impact the adoption of future Flash Player releases if this continues long enough.
Adobe’s poor attention to long lasting security and performance concerns and lack of foresight to step up mobile Flash Player development has put them in catch up mode. As someone who uses Flash-based content every day, I think some of the performance concerns are over-stated since I know that a properly designed application does provide acceptable performance on a desktop PC. I am not actively testing Flash Player 10.1, but I hope all hands are on deck to calm the growing concerns about the future of Flash.
Flash technology is deeply engrained within many web-based applications by a devoted development and creative community who develop content. As these software giants continue to take swipes at each other to gain market share and appease market analysts, sometimes they leave a mess in their wake. At the end of the day innovation and competition ultimately benefit consumers, so I look forward to seeing where this goes!
I would love to hear insight from others who have been following this saga…
Hi Ryan,
If you go over to the apple website, it is showing images / “screenshots” of the iPad. Some of these show the iPad displaying the NY Times, in full Flash glory (without the blue lego bricks).
Maybe someone should tell the marketing department that the device will not display Flash content
Thanks for the post!
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Hi Ryan
Why do you think Apple continue to hold out on Flash support on all generations of their devices?
Do you think it’s potential security holes concerns that they’d rather not have to worry about?
let’s keep in mind that the performance of Flash on Macs is atrocious. I routinely run flash blockers on all browsers and only run flash when absolutely necessary. On my Macbook Pro – 4 cores, 4GB RAM, yada yada yada – flash plays, CPU spikes, fans spin, battery drains. How do you suppose an iPhone or iPad battery is going to hold up?
Flash is the format that Xcelsius publishes in, so where does that leave Xcelsius dashboard developers? Are there any workarounds or other solutions? We have some dashboards that I would very much like to have access to on an iPad? Any thoughts moving forward?
Hey Ryan, Simply put, flash is no longer just a web site tool, it has grown far beyond that allowing for customized interactive app development.
Unless a stripped down version is made available, apple will not add this to its platform as it will directly impact/compete with its current control of apps on iTunes.
It’s a shame…would like to access my xcelsius apps on the iphone.
Not displaying Flash content is just a poor decision for the end-user, loads of web pages use Flash, no matter that it is a proprietary standard (unlike HTML 5 e.g.).
It might be that Apple just wants to ensure its closed platform for the Apps (see iPhone) generating loads of revenue for Apple.
As an example: think about books, which you could only purchase at amazon and NOWHERE else, because Amazon cites security and performane issues with books sold by other vendors…
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