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On Flash Crash and Sublime HTML5 Video Clash

By Rene Ritchie, Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 a 8:03 pm

We all know by now there's no Flash on the iPhone or iPod touch, and it doesn't look like there'll be Flash on the iPad, which is probably why Adobe's Chief Technology Officer fired off an impassioned defense of the plugin, while a software engineer shows how a still-unfixed bug crashes it, and the first full on HTML5 video player concept makes its debut.

First up, Adobe CTO, Kevin Lynch has posted a full throated defense of Flash on his Adobe Blog and in a follow up comment notes:

Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.

How does this reconcile with Apple CEO, Steve Jobs saying something along the lines of "Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash"? TUAW draws our attention to Matthew Dempsky who found a bug that causes Flash to crash in Safari and Chrome, and Firefox to crash completely. And Adobe hasn't fixed it some 16 months later... Dempsky has created http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/ to demonstrate (remember, it will crash Firefox completely!), and says:

CEOh-Snap: Steve Jobs Says Adobe Lazy, Flash Buggy, Google Wants to Kill iPhone, Not "Not Evil", Next iPhone A+ Update?

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jan 31, 2010 a 9:07 am

According to an anonymous source in attendance at Apple's recent, internal iPad town hall meeting at the Cupertino campus, Steve Jobs answered some employee questions by saying "Adobe is lazy" and that Google's "don't be evil" motto was "BS". Wired reports:

Adobe Flash Blog on iPad/iPhone -- Bad for Games, TV, News... and Porn!

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Jan 29, 2010 a 6:33 pm

TheFlashBlog's Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe "focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities" has put up a series of iPad mockups highlighting a wide range of web sites all showing the blue lego brick of Flash plugin fail -- and they feature the range of games like Farmville, news sites like CNN, TV sites like Hulu, and online porn like... well, you get the idea.

Politics and Practicality the Reason for no Flash Player on iPhone... and iTablet?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 25, 2010 a 12:30 pm

Daring Fireball has an interesting post up regarding the continued lack of a Flash Player for the iPhone, and the reasons why Flash support for the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is unlikely:

I’ll leave the last word to Apple COO Tim Cook, who a year ago said, “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”

Flash is owned and controlled by Adobe.

Adobe Getting Snarky Over Flash on iPhone

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 a 2:13 pm

Adobe's getting snarky over the continued absence of Flash on the iPhone, now presenting users with the above message which reads:

Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch (sic).

Fair enough. Apple doesn't allow code interpreters like Flash, Java, SilverLight, etc. on the iPhone. Even Apple's own media plugin, QuickTime, doesn't run inline on websites but rather launches a separate player app to show videos.

Adobe Releases Photoshop.com iPhone App

By Jeremy, Friday, Oct 9, 2009 a 2:33 pm

Adobe has released Photoshop.com Mobile [Free - iTunes Link].

More on Adobe CS5 Flash Compilation for iPhone Binaries

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Oct 9, 2009 a 10:29 am

Daring Fireball has been linking to some interesting discussions on Adobe's recent announcement that Flash CS5 will compile "ahead of time" native iPhone binaries that can be submitted, as is, to Apple's iTunes App Store.

First up, KickingBear reminds everyone to give it a chance before burying it just on concept or principle:

Adobe CS5 to Allow Flash to Compile iPhone Apps

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Oct 6, 2009 a 6:31 am

Since Adobe can't get Flash on the iPhone -- yet -- they figure the next best thing is to let Flash CS5 and ActionScript 3 compile native iPhone apps that can be submitted to the iTunes App Store and run on iPhones and iPod touches everywhere.

Flash ARMed to the MAX? Could the iPhone be Next?

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Nov 17, 2008 a 5:46 pm

According to Macrumors, Adobe and ARM, which is the chipset Apple uses to power the iPhone, have announced they're making a special version optimized for mobile devices. (And, yes, to be snarky, I'll believe that when I get a version optimized for Intel on the Mac, b'okay?)