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Pointless Flash Rant – Flash 10.1 still sucks

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Flash is becoming a never ending nightmare with high CPU usage and the laptop getting hot. Even with a i5, the laptop still manage to get very hot when I play a 360p Youtube Video. On top of that, 10.1 video acceleration was on and it didn’t do ANYTHING! The video still played really choppy.

There is no wonder why Apple doesn’t want to install Flash by default, it’s a piece of shit. Adobe insists that Flash does not cause a computer overheat and drain the battery quickly, they are dead wrong. Stop shafting the Mac and Linux users out there, because nobody is happy.

And yes, I use ClicktoFlash so I don’t have Flash Ads eat up my CPU and make my laptop a steaming hotplate.

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On Steve Job's Open Letter on Adobe Flash

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Read Here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Although I don’t worship Apple or think that Steve Jobs is always right with the closed system on the iPhone that I need to Jailbreak just so I can load whatever apps I want, he does bring up a good point about Flash. Flash is becoming redundant in the web. Why? There are better solutions out there. People used to use Flash just to get drop down menus, but now that can be achieved with Javascript and CSS, there is no need to use Flash. H264 video plays better on HTML5 than Flash on Mac OS X considering how much Adobe neglected the Flash Player for so long. This have been the same case with Flash on Linux, working like a pile of shit while the Windows version work like it should. Not everyone wants to use Windows as their OS of choice and people want a alternative. Shoving all the improvements over for the Windows version of Flash is alienating other users to have a properly functioning Flash player. Because of the instability and performance problem, I had to install Click2Flash to prevent Flash from loading. It also allowed me to play youtube videos without needing to use Flash.

I can’t say that Apple’s App Store is a closed system, but despite Flash can be used on any platform, it is still a closed system. You can’t use other programs to make Flash movies, only the program Adobe provides developers and once developers use it, they lock the developers in, with no other alternative to use if they decide they want to use something else. HTML5, Javascript, CSS, Webkit is open… Flash isn’t despite what Adobe says. If they open sourced Flash, then it would be a different story, but that isn’t the case.

Flash is the past… not the future. Now more and more websites are switching to HTML5 for video or building native apps to play these videos without Flash. Flash is pointless on a touch screen phone because Flash is designed for a mouse and keyboard. Also, it will cause further instability because of Adobe’s track record and suck up all the battery life because of those Flash ads.

Adobe needs to give up on exerting the power for Flash. Flash is antiqued technology that needs to go. The web will be better off without Flash…

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Adobe and their Crybaby approach on Flash

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Just recently, Apple changed the agreement over how programs can be made on the iPhone OS 4.0, only allowing C, C++ and Objective C to be used. This is obviously a change aimed at Adobe where they have this ability in Flash CS5 that allows one to compile a Flash application to the iPhone. Now they are crying fowl and want to sue Apple.

Excuse me? Adobe, you have treated Mac users as second class citizens. This is evident when they ditch Premiere on the Mac, delayed their transition for the apps on Mac OS X, don’t have Universal Binary of the Applications until 2007… Who is the lazy one now? The problem is that most creative people mostly use Macs and they are not going to ditch a Mac just to use your products on Windows. The problem is that you neglected the Mac and also the Linux platform for Flash just to focus more on catering for the Windows users. Do you think it’s fair? Why does Flash take more CPU on Mac OS X while playing a Youtube video. Why does Flash and Adobe Air suck so much on Linux? How come it took a whole year to fix that Flash crash bug that affected every OS? Because, they don’t care about those non-Windows users and more interested in filling their pockets with money by selling extremely expensive creative suites that are bloated on top of draconian DRM that does absolutely nothing to thwart piracy.

Adobe, the problem is that you can’t just sue Apple because they don’t allow flash. The AppStore is not a monopoly since there are other devices that have an AppStore like Android and Blackberry. Apple also don’t control the majority of the smartphone market share (They only control around 15%) let alone the whole cellphone market share. The problem with Adobe is that you are being a wuss and not fixing your software that has bugs and instead of moaning and say that it’s all Apple’s fault. Go ahead and pull your creative suite, you know that Apple will create replacements to bring more pressure like they did with Final Cut Pro. You aren’t helping yourself by mistreating all the creative professionals who depend on the Mac and also your software. Instead of wasting your time with a lawsuit that would otherwise fail, you should fix your software and make up with Apple. Creative Professionals that uses Macs (not the fanboys) shouldn’t have to be shafted because you can’t put fully functional software without bugs, so do yourself a favor… fix your software and stop whining… or be left behind…

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