Comments on: Adobe Flash Shown On Nexus.. Mixed Feelings?

By: flashfever

flashfever — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:34:45 +0000

Was that video supposed to make people actually want this? If browser based games (which looked terrible in this video) and advertising (it’s annoying on my computer…why the hell would I want it on my phone???) are the only reason to bring Flash to mobile devices, I can’t imagine why anyone would be in favor of this.

By: JarredStanley

JarredStanley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:30:21 +0000

I have mixed feeling with flash on mobile devices. Flash in browser should only happen if you can turn it on/off quickly (possibly while the page is loading). Kinda like a kill switch. I do like the approach Apple has done with youtube video. Stand alone app to play content. Adobe Flash should implement this interactivity. With the lack of viewing real-estate on these phones the last thing I want is to be overrun with flash ads and poor flash design. We need to control to turn this off. Keeping it in-app seems to be the best solution to bring flash to mobile devices.

By: Bboyasist

Bboyasist — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:34:38 +0000

I used to use every website possible on me samsung epix before skyfire got raped in design from other websites that caused flash not to work. Sure it took a littlebit longer to load but the fact that it was Truly mobile web browsing made it worth it. Sadly gone are the days of a phone that is capable of doing such things. I am highly anticipating a phone that will bring back True mobile browsing once again.

By: kristen

kristen — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:43:01 +0000

im pissed i love my droid n i work for verizonwireless.com i push sales on it daily n absolutely love it but without flash player its handicapped in so many levels i want a guaranteed eta on adobe release 10.1 for android os the nexxus is great but.the sales we give with contract and our network will by far over extended the google sales isnt that why we signed a contract in the first place with google give us a specific date consumers need to know n its so far the only thing i cant do with my phone n i desperately need this functionality please eta

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:58:50 +0000

Accelerated flash on a mobile device is a great thing. I’m a Flash developer and create Apps faster, cooler and cheaper than any native App can be developed. The App will run on many diffrent devices ( if that works one day ). I coded in Obj. C. for the IPhone and development is slow and expencive in comparison. Sure there ist a lot of Stuff you can’t do with Flash.
On my Mobile Device Flash in a Browser will be blocked most of the Time.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:32:07 +0000

I’d take HTML5 support over flash anyday.

By: The_Omega_Man

The_Omega_Man — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 10:53:40 +0000

I’m willing to bet it’s the 1Ghz Snapdragon that 10.1 needs to run Flash 10.1 smoothly and still have some HP to multitask! LOL

By: D-man

D-man — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:20:09 +0000

Flash sucks, and the sooner it dies and is replaced by open standards like HTML5, the better.

By: flashgames

flashgames — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:22:18 +0000

Accelerated flash on a mobile phone!!! i can’t wait to get all these flashgames on it!

By: Maj

Maj — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:55:24 +0000

yeeyyy, more porn for you, kids. I feel bad already for your “right hands”.

By: ari-free

ari-free — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:52:48 +0000

It really should be up to the users to decide if flash sucks or not. The iPhone is like a nagging nanny: eat your vegetables or no dessert for you! Don’t forget to wear a coat because it’s cold outside! Don’t use Flash because it will kill your battery!

By: ari-free

ari-free — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:25:50 +0000

hmm I never noticed any of these ad atrocities because I use adblock on firefox…and plan on getting pocketfox the second it comes out for android. I must live in a different world than those stuck on IE/Safari.

By: sime

sime — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:25:18 +0000

I’m a web developer and my favourite quote about flash on mobile was on OSNews: “Any developer who buys into Flash on mobile is a muppet of the first order.”

http://www.osnews.com/permalink?387723

To me its beautiful that mobile browsing is flash free. Flash sites designed for desktop use are badly designed and rape resources. Resources which mobile devices don’t have.

I love Android, but I hope Apple remain strong on this. If the iPhone supports flash, the mobile internet will die. We have been blessed with modern browsers on these smart phones, a point not emphasized enough.

By: caffesilvia

caffesilvia — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:18:04 +0000

I have ZERO interest in Adobe Flash. I would disable it on my desktop if there weren’t so many frickin’ web sites that are invisible without it. Hate Flash. Not once have I ever seen a good use for it (in a browser).

Also, Flash has enabled the some of the worst atrocities of online advertising ever committed.

By: tliebeck

tliebeck — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:02:37 +0000

The Flash ads on any given popular web site will commonly expend an entire core of my 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo E7500. In addition, I find the annoyance to be great enough to make me want to leave.

I’m very curious to see what Adobe does here, as there is simply no way that browser-based Flash ads would work on an Android device. The half-arsed programming by the ad-developers which was tested only on their eleventy-core Mac Pro is simply going to be a non-starter for a 500-MHz mobile phone CPU.