Comments on: Gift, Song -- Apple's New 100,000 Apps for Just About Anything Commercials

By: Lady Kaede

Lady Kaede — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:21:47 +0000

It would indeed be nice to watch those Flash-enabled videos on my IPhone (or as my daughter calls hers, the "ifo") - bit I agree with the majority, enable them with something thinner and better than Flash. Love it, but don't need it.

Ads are just fine. What's not to like?

By: mystic

mystic — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:36:19 +0000

Great ads, and Apple is absolutely right to keep on milking this for as long as it can. None of the other OS's have anything much to demonstrate in this area; it's a clear open goal, and will be for some time.

By: Kaiks

Kaiks — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:10:57 +0000

It would be nice to have Flash, would it be so hard to have a switch in the settings to toggle Flash on/off.

Apple's ads never state that you have to pay for many of the Apps on their ads, I find that a little misleading. I once saw an old lady in a shop buying an iPod because she saw the ad that says it can hold over 1000 songs and she asked what the songs are. She didn't have a computer let alone the Internet, luckily the rep had a soul and explained the way an MP3 player works.

By: RON JEREMY

RON JEREMY — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:42:46 +0000

^ RON JEREMY SAYS: i agree 110% with this lamo

By: melwan

melwan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:32:37 +0000

@Belichick The Genius:

And reduce my surfing speed by 50% because of all those flash based ads? no thanks.

I rely on my iPhone to do ~60%-70% of my daily surfing and I do not miss Flash one bit. Heck, even in Mac when I fire up Activity Monitor, the Flash plug-in for Safari is usually eating the most ram and CPU usage lol

By: ArseneKarl

ArseneKarl — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:10:25 +0000

I wanna watch web videos on my iPhone too.

I really do not want Flash on my iPhone. I want Audio/Video tags in HTML5 and native codec / controller.

For me it's about hating Flash more than supporting Apple's decision.

I do want Mobile Safari plug-ins though... Like... ClicktoFlash to KILL freaking flash if it somehow finds its way into iPhone.

By: Alison

Alison — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:48:10 +0000

I think the reason that Apple doesn't want Flash on its devices is that they want people to make and buy apps, not play browser-based Flash games on Safari. If your game works over Safari, why bother selling through the App Store?

By: Belichick The Genius

Belichick The Genius — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:56:48 +0000

Rene, it's close to 4PM here on the east coast and still no mention of the Adobe Flash 10.1 pre release build? I'd like to see a post on how Apple, and their dictatorship, are dropping the ball on yet another opportunity to enrich the Iphones web browsing experience. I don't want to hear all the fanboys moan and groan about Flash eating up CPU power either. It would be nice not having to rely on my PC to watch videos I can't watch on my Iphone.