As soon as Jobs's anti-Flash remarks were issued, they immediately stirred up waves. Overall, some of his statements are reasonable, but some of them are questionable. Apple has made several brave moves in its history, such as abandoning parallel and serial ports and rewriting MacOS to make it incompatible with earlier versions. These moves later proved to be prescient, but what about this time? This article analyzes several loopholes in Jobs's anti-Flash remarks.
Apple and Adobe have a long history. In fact, I've known them since they started their business in a garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for use in our laser printers.
It all sounds like how Apple can help Adobe. The basic market of Mac is the design field and brought about the desktop printing revolution. However, without Adobe's technology, none of this would be possible. For years, Apple couldn't even render their fonts without Adobe's font manager.
After that golden era, Apple and Adobe parted ways. Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Adobe was immersed in the enterprise market with its Acrobat product line.
What nonsense. Adobe is still a fish in water in the design field. To say that Adobe is fleeing to the enterprise market is not only funny, but also stupid.
Half of Adobe Creative Suite is purchased by Apple users.
Is it also true that the other way around is that Adobe boosts Apple’s sales? However, if Apple's hatred of Adobe continues to deepen and Creative Suite completely disappears from Mac, I will not switch to Apple's design software, but to Windows, because Apple does not have its own design software at all.
I want to briefly talk about our views on Adobe's Flash products so that customers and critics can understand why we don't support Flash in iPhone, iPod, and iPad.
Do you want us to know the truth? In fact, the truth has long been covered up by Article 3.3.1 of the Developer Agreement.
Adobe claims that Apple is a closed system and Flash is open. The opposite is true. Let me explain.
Alas, dogs are tired of hearing arguments like this.
HTML5, the new web standard adopted by Apple, Google and other manufacturers
HTML5 hasn't even been proposed as a standard, let alone taken shape.
Apple has even created open standards for the Web. For example, our open source project Webkit is a completely open source HTML5 rendering engine. Except for Microsoft, almost all manufacturers use it as the core of mobile browsers. Apple created mobile Web standards.
I pour. Designing a browser software based on existing standards is called creating an open standard?
Adobe has repeatedly said that Apple mobile devices cannot fully access the Web because 75% of videos on the Web are Flash. Why don't they say that almost all of these videos can be accessed in the more modern format H.264?
Almost all?
YouTube accounts for about 40% of the videos on the Web. On Apple mobile devices, using a specialized software, these videos shine, and the iPad provides almost the best browsing experience on YouTube.
agree. However, some YouTube content cannot be played on iPhone. Even if YouTube does account for 40% of the market, this still cannot be counted as almost all.
iPhone, iPod, iPad users don't miss much video.
Big mistake.
Adobe also claims that Apple devices cannot run Flash games, which is true.
As the woman in Catherine Tate's office sketch said, yes, it is.
Symantec recently pointed out that Flash's security performance in 2009 was really poor.
oh.
Our first-hand knowledge shows that Flash is the culprit behind Mac crashes.
What caused my Mac to crash was not just the operating system itself, but iTunes, Safari, and all of Microsoft's software.
We have been working with Adobe to resolve these issues.
Yes, you always call Adobe and they put you on hold.
Additionally, Flash performs poorly on mobile devices.
I don’t understand and I dare not speak.
Fourth, there is the issue of power consumption. To save power when playing video, mobile devices must use hardware decoding, and although Flash recently added support for H.264, almost all Flash sites currently require previous-generation decoders.
Wait, you don't like Flash because of its history?
Fifth, multi-touch. Apple revolutionary invented the multi-touch interface, which can be separated from the mouse and there is no mouse hovering. Most Flash sites have to rewrite code if they want to use multi-touch. If developers have to rewrite their Flash sites, why not just use new technologies such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, etc.?
I used to think that Jobs didn't know how big a project it would be to fire Flash developers and hire iPhone developers. Now it seems that he really doesn't know.
Adobe also lets developers use Flash to develop programs on mobile devices. We know from painful experience that adding a third layer between the platform and developers will ultimately produce substandard programs.
There must be a long list of non-standard programs approved by Apple that have nothing to do with Flash.
If developers rely on third-party development libraries, it will be difficult for them to get new features directly from the platform itself in a timely manner, which depends on the third-party development libraries themselves.
It makes sense, but the problem is that developers and designers who only use Flash and know nothing about Objective-C have no chance to directly obtain the new features of the platform itself. Instead, they have to rely on some third-party development tools to obtain these benefits. Such as AdobeTLF.
Everyone is providing media content for Apple mobile devices, indicating that Flash is no longer necessary.
No. As far as the electronic magazines most suitable for iPad consumption are concerned, there are currently a large number of pirated PDF-based content, but there are only a few innovative original applications, and this change is also very slow, and it is still far from taking a dominant position. Go to Flash ization has slowed down this change.
Perhaps Adobe should focus its main efforts on the design of HTML5 tools in the future.
Agreed, but Old Qiao, what should I do now?