Adobe on Flash in iOS: 'We've moved on'

Oh yeah. "We Moved On". . . Well okay Adobe. Move you azz on then.

I can't trust Flash to run well on my still-competent 2ghz G5 with 2gb of ram, why would I trust it to not clog up my iPod Touch?

It's a dreadful load of tripe. I actually still have Camino 2 with Flash 9 that runs better than Flash 10 does in Safari. It's an absolute shambles and the de facto HTML5 internet can't come soon enough.

Still waiting for Adobe to release a HTML 5 content creation tool... an open standard that works on all devices.

But that would mean people wouldn't use their closed SWF standard, that either is a slow processor hog or a cut-down lite version on all devices without a Windows architecture because they're to lazy to re-write their source code for other systems.

Maybe if they released an even almost-decent version of flash for OS X, anyone would trust them to be able to release one that works on iOS. I mean, if they manage to almost crash 3 GHz iMacs all day, why would anyone be stupid enough to let them crash phones?

LOL!!! Is that how Adobe wants to "save face?" I think Apple had moved on since 2008 but Adobe didn't get the memo I suppose.

Adobe should be worried (as should Google). If the rumors are true and Verizon gets the iPhone in January Apple will see another surge in iPhone sales thereby weakening the case for Flash on mobile devices. Chances are Verizon will offer data plans for the iPad too, which will drive that point even harder.

You can make the case that HTML5 isn't as robust as Flash but the same can be said for games in Flash versus games bought from the App Store (or Google Marketplace for that matter).

Also, everything Adobe is promoting are free games and applications via Flash. As a developer that doesn't sound very advantageous to me. I'd rather spend my time building an app for $2 bucks than spend that same time building a free app/game in Flash and hope that it catches on and get residuals from the hits from the site. About the same risk but much better and quicker reward from an app on the App Store or Marketplace.

Whoops some sort of double post-within-a post happened! Here's my post without the double-speak:

Yes, when Adobe says, "We've moved on." They are actually saying, "We cannot do this. We cannot conform to your pissy-whiney iOS, w-with the touch screens and, and the gesture movements and, and the fancy-pansy pokey don't hog the processor requests or use up all the battery go-juice... heck.. NObody can do that! You'd have to be a computer genius to do that! We need to have Flash send back information so's we and advertisers can store Flash cookies and grab hard drive space and access the camera and the microphone and integrate the Peer-to-Peer networking and...and all the other little things that we can do with Flash without the user really noticing! THAT takes power AND processor... so...so... we are going to take our football...err our Flash and go home. Jerks!"

Yes, when Adobe says, "We've moved on." Yes, when Adobe says, "We've moved on." They are actually saying, "We cannot do this. We cannot conform to your pissy-whiney iOS, w-with the touch screens and, and the gesture movements and, and the fancy-pansy pokey don't hog the processor requests or use up all the battery go-juice... heck.. NObody can do that! You'd have to be a computer genius to do that! We need to have Flash send back information so's we and advertisers can store Flash cookies and grab hard drive space and access the camera and the microphone and integrate the Peer-to-Peer networking and...and all the other little things that we can do with Flash without the user really noticing! THAT takes power AND processor... so...so... we are going to take our football...err our Flash and go home. Jerks!" They are actually saying, "We cannot do this. We cannot conform to your pissy-whiney iOS, w-with the touch screens and, and the gesture movements and, and the fancy-pansy pokey don't hog the processor requests or use up all the battery go-juice... heck.. NObody can do that! We need to have Flash send back information so's we and advertisers can store Flash cookies and grab hard drive space and access the camera and the microphone and integrate the Peer-to-Peer networking and...and all the other little things that we can do with Flash without the user really noticing! THAT takes power AND processor... so...so... we are going to take our football...err our Flash and go home. Jerks!"

I use Chrome, solely for the extension flashblock. I can't stand flash.

For Adobe to have really "moved on"
it would need to withdraw it's claims, to public agencies, against Apple. If Adobe continues to pursue those claims it is "hanging on" not "moving on".