Sunday, January 31, 2010

Why Apple refuses flash in its mobile devices

Jan 27, 2010, Apple releases its latest ambitious product-iPad. It has the iPhone OS, with 9.7 inch screen and 1 GH processor.So far everything sounds not bad. But when Steve was demonstrating those publisher's websites, chunks of unloaded spaces were quite outstanding on the 9.7 inch screen. People were surprised to realize that we still couldn't see flash on a big screen this that. And according to Steve Job's words, Adobe was too lazy to do a good job on flash. That was the main reason why Apple didn't take flash into their devices like iphone/ipod touch/the upcoming ipad.

I don't know whether Adobe is really a lazy company like that. But one thing I know is that most websites we are using nowadays have used flash. A survey in UK showed that over 60% of users won't buy ipad, among them, 50% of them count the lack of flash as one of the reasons they won't buy ipad. If Adobe is really as lazy as what Apple said, then I don't think there will be so many users weigh flash over their ipad.

Essentially, Apple is just a company. It is a charitable foundation. Precisely, A company will commit to its stock holders and owners. And ipad is actually nothing more than another cash cow to help apple break its revenue record once again. And I think the reason why Apple doesn't take flash into those products. Maybe Apple wants to set up another standard like HTML5 to replace flash? Maybe Apple will have to disclose some hidden information to developers if flash is allowed?Maybe Apple treat Adobe as the partner of Apple's worst enemy Microsoft? Or maybe Apple knows for sure their products will sell well even though users complain for the lack of flash? Well, only those top guys of these companies know the reason.

No comments:

Post a Comment