Friday, March 11, 2011

iPhone 4 - Adobe Flash Player

There are some rumours that apple Inc might be allowing it's idevices to support adobe flash player.
I can tell you guys that rumours will only remain as a rumour. I am very confident that apple Inc will not allow flash player into it's devices unless Steve Jobs passed away and the shareholders of apple decided to allow flash player.
Steve Jobs have his very own reason on why flash player is not allowed on the idevices.
You can read his reasonshere.

The reason is quite long, so I will quote out a short summary of it here for those lazy peoples :)
I will only quote the few important reasons. For a more detailed reason, please click here.

To achieve long battery life when playing video, mobile devices must decode the video in hardware; decoding it in software uses too much power. Many of the chips used in modern mobile devices contain a decoder called H.264 – an industry standard that is used in every Blu-ray DVD player and has been adopted by Apple, Google (YouTube), Vimeo, Netflix and many other companies.
Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software. The difference is striking: on an iPhone, for example, H.264 videos play for up to 10 hours, while videos decoded in software play for less than 5 hours before the battery is fully drained.

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short.

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

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Even though the important points are already stated, it is recommended that you guys still read the full review just in case it missed out some points.
I feel that Steve Jobs disapprove flash player in iPhone is to ensure that the iPhones run smooth and not crash like the macs. So he is helping us to have a powerful phone :)
For those who want to watch flash videos, I will recommad you this app called "Skyfire" which can be purchased from the app store at only USD$2.99 (SGD$5). Basically, the app is a browser that will auto detect a flash video and convert it to a format that iPhone uses so the video can be played. (if the app fail to work on your device, I will not be responsible)

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