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Osayidan wrote on 2012-08-14 16:43
Apple wants nothing to do with Flash, and now Adobe is dropping support of Flash for Android (mobile in general from what I understood).
I'm not sure if security updates will continue for the existing versions of Flash, if not, the mobile web is in trouble unless websites develop alternate methods, like html5.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/14/3241727/flash-for-android-dies
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-08-14 16:58
The latest version of Android, 4.1, already dropped built-in Flash support, IIRC. Adobe's stance on this has been known for a while now.
While Flash support can be useful on a mobile device, I don't think it adds that much benefit to make the development and security hassles of having an additional plugin worth it.
The move to HTML5 has been ongoing for some time now. HTML5 (or rather, how browsers run it) still has a lot of work to do when it comes to gaming performance on mobile devices, but other than that, it's fine for the most part.
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Osayidan wrote on 2012-08-14 17:26
For the average website this is a non-issue.
There seems to be a tendency of SAAS providers or other online apps/interfaces to be flash based, sometimes 100% flash based if not partially. Most of the time it's stuff that could have been done in html/javascript instead. People using those things on their mobile phones will be screwed in a little while. They can choose to keep an unpatched flash on their device but that's always a bad idea.
It's not adobe's fault either. I'm glad this is happening. Developers will have to stop using flash for things that don't strictly require flash, like all those flash based interfaces.
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RebeccaBlack wrote on 2012-08-15 01:58
On one hand I love Flash, on another I kinda hate it because it's unstable, has occasional security issues, and like all Adobe products, is way too bulky.
I think the web would be better as a whole if we moved on to something else one day.
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Kazuni wrote on 2012-08-15 02:02
it's funny because now android users don't get to be jerks about the fact that they have flash
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-08-15 02:11
BlackBerry Playbook tablet users still get to be jerks. x)
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2012-08-15 07:23
Quote from Yoorah;933927:
BlackBerry Playbook tablet users still get to be jerks. x)
ugh Blackberry
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-22 20:21
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;934075:
ugh Blackberry
Don't get me started on Blackberry. I have to deal with those phones sometimes for testing things at work. Hate using it. Anyways, this is slighly depressing. Especially for watching anime on the phone. HTML5 is a great and wonderful thing and that's all I use if I'm building a mobile site that plays videos. If the phone doesn't support HTML5 I just fall back on a link to the raw mp4 file which if the phone can't handle html5 video can at least use the mp4 format.
More people really should start using HTML5 because frankly, HTML5 is just plain easier and simpler to use and develop for.
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-08-22 20:40
The Blackberry Tablet OS and the web browser it comes with are actually both top notch pieces of software. :P
Can't speak about the older stuff, though.
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Osayidan wrote on 2012-08-22 22:22
I despise blackberry because of their enterprise stuff.
Can't speak about a stand-alone phone, but if you're managing it for an enterprise it's a useless piece of shit. Expensive paperweight. Not to mention the management server is horrible software and their tech support's only answer to any issue is "restart the whole windows server" or "make a backup of the phone and wipe it and resync everything" which takes about an hour per phone (machine time) because it's so slow, even if the guy has less than 100 MB of data.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2012-08-23 20:06
Well the blackberry's I've worked with doesn't have any of that fancy stuff. I still don't get the whole thing with Blackberry's and their management software. Really, what's the point of it?
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Osayidan wrote on 2012-08-24 18:17
Quote from Kingofrunes;939846:
Well the blackberry's I've worked with doesn't have any of that fancy stuff. I still don't get the whole thing with Blackberry's and their management software. Really, what's the point of it?
There is no point, an iphone with exchange server will do the same thing and more.
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Yoorah wrote on 2012-08-24 18:25
Not too long ago, RIM's system was the only one with push email notifications. It's really not that RIM sucks--they just haven't been able to continue to stay ahead while the others have been catching up.
iPhones have shitty security.