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Adobe shows off Flash on Android
THE SOFTWARE HOUSE Adobe has fought back at Apple's crusade against it by showing off what Flash can do on a rival to the Ipad, an Android based tablet from Google.
While Apple has banned its customers from using Flash. Adobe was showing punters at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco what Flash looked like on upcoming Android-based tablets.
The Google Android Tablet, even in a pre-release form, can manage applications and features based on Adobe's Flash and Air codes.
According to videos from the expo, posted on Zedomax, the Android multi-touch tablet was running a beta version of a Wired app and Flash on Youtube. The tablet is said to run Flash and Air "flawlessly," without any of the performance issues that Job's Mob claims break Apple's expensive gadgets.
An Adobe representative told the world plus dog that there will be shedloads of Android-based tablets arriving on the market by the end of the year. The company also expects Flash to be supported on certain Android smartphones sometime this summer. µ
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"Flash" is just a container for video codecs, which could just as nicely "contain" Google's soon-to-be-donated-and-open-sourced free VP8 codec. That is, instead of the patent-encumbered H.264 codec that Apple and Microsoft want to adopt as a kind of entrance fee to the "exclusive (rich) boys club" of web publishers. So, this is part of the battle for a free web, as opposed to a web only controlled by the rich and powerful (read: APPLE, MICROSOFT, MEDIA CARTELS). Google's advance to support Adobe after Apple's (and Microsoft's) attacks are designed to this end.
There is a lot to care about for "ordinary citizens" in this battle, namely freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. The web is the pulse of our modern world; it is your right to express and share your opinions freely with your fellow inhabitants of your world. Shrug your shoulders, and kiss these rights goodbye in favour of being told "what to do, what to watch, what to think" by Big Business, some governments, and others which think control over and censorship of the web is a "good thing". The interpretation of "good" as it pertains to these special-interest groups being the key point here.
Several things can be done about this:
1) Vote with your wallets. If you do not agree with the actions a company is taking to be anticompetitive and suppress web freedom, DO NOT BUY OR USE ANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES, INCLUDING MEDIA. Why fund oppressive overlords when you can choose to support those who respect your rights?
2) Encourage open-source-friendly companies (such as IBM, Google, Novell, Oracle -- aka Sun, Canonical, Nokia, Intel, RedHat, and so on) to form defensive "patent pools" to cross-licence patents to protect freedom of expression, and free operating systems like Linux and Symbian. A strong legal counter-threat seems to be one of the only things Apple, Microsoft, and the Media Cartels can understand.
3) Elect only politicians who support user rights to free communications and software innovation. Many (most) politicians presently seem to be in the back-pockets of the Microsoft-Apple-Media Cartels three-headed monster, but this can change with the next election.
Or, you can "fiddle with your iPhone" while Rome burns. However, I suggest your children may not be happy with the results of apathy on this issue.
Love Google, hate Adobe, but i want flash on my tablet! Apple is arrogant i wont buy there products...
Should Google really use defecation imagery when describing their backload of would-be iPad killers? My guess is the word choice is unintentionally appropriate.
Let's have some pace and quiet please.
After seeing a mates Android phone browsing some sites embedded with flash, I can only think Apple are very correct with their decision not to support it. It runs so slowly! The only option is to turn it off completely. It's a waste of time IMHO.
Well, if there's one good thing about the Apple backlash it seem that Adobe is raising the game with Flash, and if they make the standard the best there is available, then that's not a bad thing. Competition is good, and finally Adobe has been shaken awake.
Whatever the outcome, Flash or another, we should see a more stable, efficient and mobile friendly standard for this type of content.
I love Flash, and I love my Droid. I am so glad to hear that Adobe and Android will be moving forward with Full Flash. I use flash to develop rich Web content and love it. Yes, beginners make horrible use of Flash, but same with even beginner HTML coders. So, stop putting the blame on Flash. With the right use of it, it is great.
to get a demo version of flash running (without any CPU usage figures or battery life comparisons BTW) on a mobile OS. They also haven't shown it running the kind of flash games that people say they want it for (going to be tricky without a mouse pointer to hover over things). I'm sure that Apple are just quaking in their boots (NOT!).
P.S. I notice that Nick is now so lazy he can't even be bothered to link to the sites he's ripping his "articles" from.