Steve Job’s has finally blown the lid on why the ipad slate tablet pc does not have flash on it. You can read the ful report on http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
It turns out the real reason is down to compatibiliy issues and the drain on system resources by flash, Flash is specifically designed for PCs with mice, as it utilises mouseover and rollover effects which cannot function properly on a touch screen tablet PC.
Furthermore flash is stated as being a “closed platform” by steve jobs so the evolution of flash is slow and geared towards where adobe wants to take the platform and not what the end users need. This is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black because apple acts pretty much the same way in with the iphone and it’s products.
The main gripe is that adobe needs to be compatible with all hardware and not just a few specific brands, this make flash not the most efficient software for macs and steve has mentioned that flash has been known to cause crashes and bugs in macs.
Steve jobs prefers an open platform for it’s tablet pc device such as html5, which performs very similar to flash but is much lower in drain in system resources.
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25 August 2011
Steve Jobs takes a rest.
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