@Alexpeegs Whatever Flash does, HTML 5 can do it without hogging your CPU and significantly decreasing your battery life. Remember, we're talking about mobile devices that already have low battery life to begin with. I fully support Apple's decision to stick with an open standard like HTML 5 and to keep inefficiently "ported" apps written in Flash from the AppStore.
@jeremynmo Exactly. It's the exact same thing with gaming consoles. Weird that you don't see anyone whining about not being able to write a game in Flash and just export it and having it running on the PS3. Damn Sony and their lockdown policies...
Seriously, Apple has every right to keep their platform from being flooded with (even more) useless apps. If you want a phone with a completely open marketplace with no quality control whatsoever, go for Android.
It's weird that people treat this as a dick move by Apple when they're actually fighting for an open, standards-based Web experience. Adobe have a monopoly over RIAs with the Flash platform and Apple (along with Google and others) are trying to make the Web more accessible to everyone, both from a user and a developer standpoint. Also, keeping Flash developers from flooding the AppStore with meaningless applications written in Flash and inefficiently ported to ObjC seems like a great move.
I'm all for HTML5 and a Web without proprietary platforms. If Flash devs stopped whining and started adapting to what will certainly be the future Web standard, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Keep going, Apple/Google/whoever.
It's weird that people treat this as a dick move by Apple when they're actually fighting for an open, standards-based Web experience. Adobe have a monopoly over RIAs with the Flash platform and Apple (along with Google and others) are trying to make the Web more accessible to everyone, both from a user and a developer standpoint. Also, keeping Flash developers from flooding the AppStore with meaningless applications written in Flash and inefficiently ported to ObjC seems like a great move.
I'm all for HTML5 and a Web without proprietary platforms. If Flash devs stopped whining and started adapting to what will certainly be the future Web standard, we wouldn't be having this discussion. Keep going, Apple/Google/whoever.
@mominshahab It depends. I agree that Task Managers should be avoided. If the OS is sufficiently advanced, the user will never have to manually quit (or force quit) apps. Regarding the stylus, it depends on the device. With multitouch, there's almost no need for it, but it would've been great to have a Wacom-like experience on the iPad.
@AcE17 'Cause Steve Ballmer and Eric Schmidt just care about that warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you buy one of their products, right? Dude, wake up and smell the capitalism.
MacBook Pro updates almost upon us? Screenshot of new model numbers offers hope
Apr 10th 2010 10:00PM (Engadget)Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
Apr 10th 2010 9:55PM (Engadget)Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
Apr 10th 2010 9:50PM (Engadget)Remember, we're talking about mobile devices that already have low battery life to begin with.
I fully support Apple's decision to stick with an open standard like HTML 5 and to keep inefficiently "ported" apps written in Flash from the AppStore.
Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
Apr 10th 2010 9:45PM (Engadget)Seriously, Apple has every right to keep their platform from being flooded with (even more) useless apps. If you want a phone with a completely open marketplace with no quality control whatsoever, go for Android.
Steve Jobs responds directly to developer over new iPhone SDK rules, cites blog for explanation
Apr 10th 2010 9:39PM (Engadget)Adobe have a monopoly over RIAs with the Flash platform and Apple (along with Google and others) are trying to make the Web more accessible to everyone, both from a user and a developer standpoint.
Also, keeping Flash developers from flooding the AppStore with meaningless applications written in Flash and inefficiently ported to ObjC seems like a great move.
I'm all for HTML5 and a Web without proprietary platforms. If Flash devs stopped whining and started adapting to what will certainly be the future Web standard, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Keep going, Apple/Google/whoever.
Apple's iPhone lockdown: apps must be written in one of three languages, Adobe in the hurt locker
Apr 10th 2010 9:37PM (Engadget)Adobe have a monopoly over RIAs with the Flash platform and Apple (along with Google and others) are trying to make the Web more accessible to everyone, both from a user and a developer standpoint.
Also, keeping Flash developers from flooding the AppStore with meaningless applications written in Flash and inefficiently ported to ObjC seems like a great move.
I'm all for HTML5 and a Web without proprietary platforms. If Flash devs stopped whining and started adapting to what will certainly be the future Web standard, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Keep going, Apple/Google/whoever.
Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it'
Apr 8th 2010 3:14PM (Engadget)Regarding the stylus, it depends on the device. With multitouch, there's almost no need for it, but it would've been great to have a Wacom-like experience on the iPad.
Steve Jobs: 'we tried to buy a company called AdMob'
Apr 8th 2010 3:08PM (Engadget)Dude, wake up and smell the capitalism.
CE-oh no he didn't!: Reggie Fils-Aime says the iPhone OS isn't a 'viable profit platform for game development'
Apr 7th 2010 1:43PM (Engadget)Sucks for Nintendo.
HP Slate to cost $549, have 1.6GHz Atom Z530, 5 hour battery?
Apr 5th 2010 6:49PM (Engadget)What a joke.
"Up to 5+ hours of use" usually means 2 hours for watching movies and about an hour for gaming.
It sure will be great running that user-friendly (