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Tsakali
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Posted: 08-15-2012 01:54 PM

welp, it's the beginning of the end for flash altogether.

http://www.beatweek.com/blog/12941-stev ... predicted/

when mobile devices don't support your content why would any rational web developer even touch it?

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seremtan
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Posted: 08-15-2012 03:06 PM

just in the nick of time i installed the flash player on my transformer pad on saturday, so at least i can still watch youtube vids in the browser when their shitty app crashes for the 9000th time that day

ffs you'd think google could make a decent app to play their own content on their own OS

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bitWISE
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Posted: 08-15-2012 03:43 PM

Sidenote: Flash still runs on iOS and Android, you just have to load it as a native app using the AIR runtime as a precompiled wrapper.

Flash Player is dead though.

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Posted: 08-15-2012 05:09 PM

who would be stupid enough to want flash on a mobile device? oh right

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Tsakali
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Posted: 08-15-2012 05:20 PM

bitWISE wrote:
Sidenote: Flash still runs on iOS and Android, you just have to load it as a native app using the AIR runtime as a precompiled wrapper.

Flash Player is dead though.

sure, you can get it to work, but as a developer, unless absolutely necessary I wouldn't willingly cut my potential traffic by 40%

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not sure what percentages are in play here but you get the point.

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Dark Metal
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Posted: 08-15-2012 05:47 PM

Remember that time html5 replaced flash?

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Tsakali
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Posted: 08-15-2012 05:56 PM

it will. it just needs to develop sum more.

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Posted: 08-15-2012 06:36 PM

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menkent
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Posted: 08-15-2012 06:53 PM

just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/

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Captain Mazda
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Posted: 08-15-2012 07:08 PM

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Posted: 08-15-2012 09:24 PM

menkent wrote:
just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/

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seremtan
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Posted: 08-16-2012 09:07 AM

wow. just wow

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bitWISE
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Posted: 08-16-2012 09:39 AM

Tsakali wrote:
bitWISE wrote:
Sidenote: Flash still runs on iOS and Android, you just have to load it as a native app using the AIR runtime as a precompiled wrapper.

Flash Player is dead though.

sure, you can get it to work, but as a developer, unless absolutely necessary I wouldn't willingly cut my potential traffic by 40%

ps
not sure what percentages are in play here but you get the point.

Well the advantage there is writing a single code-base to target multiple platforms and not have to learn all the nitty gritty details of Android and iOS. We're comparing native apps to websites but I'm just saying Flash itself is far from dead.

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obsidian
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Posted: 08-16-2012 12:26 PM

Then again, there's HTML5 which replaces Flash for most purposes, which works on all platforms (well, a little dodgy on Microsoft ones but that's just because they're morons).

Adobe made this announcement ages ago, they're just finally officially cutting the cord. Adobe has begrudgingly put their bets on HTML5 now too, they just need time to convert their development apps to support HTML5 while slowly letting Flash die. Flash is only still "alive" for the moment while they stall and try to jump ship.

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Dark Metal
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Posted: 08-16-2012 12:55 PM

Remember that time, I said html5?

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welp, it's the beginning of the end for flash altogether.http://www.beatweek.com/blog/12941-stev ... predicted/when mobile devices don't support your content why would any rational web developer even touch it?

just in the nick of time i installed the flash player on my transformer pad on saturday, so at least i can still watch youtube vids in the browser when their shitty app crashes for the 9000th time that dayffs you'd think google could make a decent app to play their own content on their own OS

Sidenote: Flash still runs on iOS and Android, you just have to load it as a native app using the AIR runtime as a precompiled wrapper.Flash Player is dead though.

who would be stupid enough to want flash on a mobile device? oh right

Remember that time html5 replaced flash?

it will. it just needs to develop sum more.

just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/

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menkent wrote:just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/

wow. just wow

Remember that time, I said html5?

welp, it's the beginning of the end for flash altogether.

http://www.beatweek.com/blog/12941-stev ... predicted/

when mobile devices don't support your content why would any rational web developer even touch it?

just in the nick of time i installed the flash player on my transformer pad on saturday, so at least i can still watch youtube vids in the browser when their shitty app crashes for the 9000th time that day

ffs you'd think google could make a decent app to play their own content on their own OS

Sidenote: Flash still runs on iOS and Android, you just have to load it as a native app using the AIR runtime as a precompiled wrapper.

Flash Player is dead though.

just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/

menkent wrote:
just in case apple fanboys are getting swollen heads, all you need to hack someone's apple account is name, billing address, and last four of a credit card (so one web search and two phone calls):
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/ ... cking/all/