I like my iphone. I’d like to not have funny little squares on certain websites and notes telling me to download the latest flash plugin, and I recognize that Apple, not Adobe, is the cause of this deficiency.
That said… Steve Jobs is right. Flash sucks. Most people don’t care for it. It was just a way of making spiffy presentations on websites, but it breaks browser functionality and you’re forced to endure tiny scroll bars, broken mouse functions and noise. Flash websites do not operate the way ordinary websites operate. They work within themselves and they’re only part of the browser in a container of sorts. They’re buggy, use too much memory and they crash.
I don’t know anyone who loves flash websites.
Why say this? Well. If it was just the iphone I wouldn’t care. It’s a phone and it’s a teeny itty bitty little screen. So what if you can’t see a flash page here or there? For me that’s not a big deal.The deal is what Adobe tries to make of flash and everybody else’s rejection of it. They were criticizing the Kindle format because it isn’t functional with Flash.
I hate certain aspects of the Kindle format as well, but one thing I don’t hate is that it’s not Flash based. Who in their right mind would want to read their Kindle books in a Flash reader of some sort? Is Adobe Digital Editions Flash based, too? That would explain why it crashed on the first epub book I loaded onto it.
Adobe. Fix your software, get with HTML5 and stop trying to duke it out with device manufacturers who can’t support junk that doesn’t work and which breaks functionality.