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If you are regular guy using a car to go from A to B, you definitely don't want to open up the hood. But if you bought a car to learn a thing or two about the engine inside, then you are in trouble with a locked down hood. The same with kids who wanna be hackers.

If your kid want to be a hacker and learn things, he is definitely going to be in big trouble with locked down devices like iPad and companies like Apple .


IMHO, Adobe should definitely act more responsible and finetune Flash Player to perform better across all platforms.

But i disagree with John Gruber.

#1) Flash is not "slower" on Mac . It uses up too much resources compared to its Windows edition. I switch between Windows(work) and Mac (personal) all the time and i have never seen anything Flash playing "slower" on mac.Flash makes use of GPU access (if required) not just for video playback. I assume Adobe's excuse for resource hungriness is , 'too much time marketing'?

#2) As http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/hd/recommendations.html suggests, without a card you are going to experience crappy playback for HD video on Quicktime,Flash plugin and everything.

#3)John is comparing native desktop video playback tools to a plugin that lives inside a browser.

Lastly.. read staunch's comment.

Why doesnt John have comments enabled in his blog?


> Flash is not "slower" on Mac . It uses up too much resources compared to its Windows edition. I switch between Windows(work) and Mac (personal) all the time and i have never seen anything Flash playing "slower" on mac.

I think you'll find that, with regards to computer software "slower" and "uses more resources" are generally interchangable; it's a trade-off. And "slower" can be quite obviously observed when a "uses more resources" app hits a resource limit. For instance, there are flash games (not videos -- _games_) which are so choppy as to be unplayable on my dual core 2.5GHz MBP -- because it uses too much of "more resources," and runs out of cpu cycles.


"slower" means "choppy" and is not interchangeable with "use more resources" as you suggests. I have never seen any flash content that runs choppy on my 2 GHz Macbook. Post an example and back up your claim.


Why doesnt John have comments enabled in his blog?

"Sometimes a design decision is what you don’t put in, as opposed to what you put in."

http://shawnblanc.net/2007/07/why-daring-fireball-is-comment...

I find his restraint refreshing.


Except nothing moms consider cool work on this thing..


iPad, as a device is a new opportunity for developers. But not an incredible one. Open up the platform, and we can consider it incredible.

He calls the demand for open-computing and removal of restrictions a "nonsense" .


I'm not sure if you are familiar with Joe Hewitt's backstory, but he's been very vocally against the app store policies. In fact, he left the Facebook iPhone application team over this:

"My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt"

ref: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of...


Quoting him & disagreeing with him calling iPad platform an "incredible opportunity" - gets me downmodded.

I laughed a little.


No camera. No mutitasking. No choice of browsers. No plugin support in browser. Runs only what apple wants.

Definitely not worth carrying a 10 inch display for a crippled web experience.


It might be a bit early to trot out the word "crippled" in this context. Wait until at least one other rendering engine isn't eating WebKit's dust.


lame?


"we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]"

Sounds more like a generic trash talk on everything non-MS Office, than a purposeful marketing move.


Perhaps. But Microsoft is almost certainly not really worried about Zoho or Zimbra. But Google? Yeah, that's a different story, and mentioning all three of them in the same breath is a subtle hint that they're all just "bit players", as someone else in this thread pointed out.


I think Zoho is far more dangerous to Microsoft than Google in the long term.

Where Google and Microsoft are both sitting on two cash cows (Add words + Search) vs (Office + Window) and are bouncing around trying to diversify (XBox vs Wave etc) they are not really focused on killing off the competition. However, Zoho is trying to turn Office into it's cash cow and is focused on building a great long term product which means they are going to try and make an equal or better product for less money. Which is why I expect Zoho to build a stand alone office sweet long before Google goes there.


Does this really matter? IMHO, this is more of an ego issue to 'nerds' than selling the product in itself. The latter being the purpose of ads.


Dont give a fuck. Just sell things.


Perhaps i am the only one, but i never experienced even one single crash using Flash CS4 / Fireworks CS4 (mac). I use Flash CS4 everyday. Sometimes a session last for almost a whole week. No crash yet!!

But Fireworks does have tonns of annoying bugs.


You're incredibly lucky, I usually have to restart Flash a few times a day and actually I spend more time in coding in Eclipse/FDT than using Flash itself.

It crashes occasionally after publishing or test-movieing, but far worse is as soon as I start doing anything stage/library/timeline related I'm almost guaranteed at least a few crashes before I'm done.


Text copy wont work.

I really dont see anything new here. This is exactly the same stuff they have at Google books. Except now its in an iframe .

Flash implementations are obviously superior as of now.Also, try building a decent browser game in javascript and html5.


Actually games that don't involve too much motion tweening (think sudoku, tic tac toe etc.) can be done pretty well with js and html5.


any live examples?


This is old but this version of arakanoid was always pretty impressive.

http://www.schillmania.com/arkanoid/

Note it does cheat and use flash for SFX


Nope, it was just a thought. You're just going to be changing the innerhtml of DOM elements. Shouldn't be tough.


John Resig's Deep Leap: http://deepleap.org/


Text copy worked for me. (Firefox 3.5, Ubuntu Jaunty)


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