Jobs demos iPad for WSJ, trashes Flash
The ongoing shooting war between Apple and Adobe takes a decidedly Flash favorable turn with a Gawker rewrite of the Apple CEO’s visit to the Wall Street Journal, delivering a canard (and correction) laden take on recent events in New York.
Gawker uses some familiar phrases — reality distortion field, dark side — to characterize Steve Jobs recent iPad demo at Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. It’s said that a select group of editor’s at the News Corporation publication heard the Apple CEO pitch the soon-to-be-released tablet device, as well as a Flash-free future.
Here’s the hearsay:
• Running Flash on the iPad could reduce useable battery time from 10 to 1.5 hours
• Flash is dead technology, like the floppy drive
• Using H.264 to replace Flash for video and vector graphics would be (large grain o’ salt) “trivial”
These “Jobs said” events are starting to read like scripted material rather than news or even a recitation of actual events. Further, much like Adobe’s purported “kill HTML5 at any cost” Web postings, a judicious application of salt is advised.
Also, whereas New York Times editors and managers purportedly gnash their teeth over meaty details, like subscription pricing and which department will handle this “new” content delivery vehicle, Wall Street Journal editors seem to have only one thing on their minds and, though killing Flash would be a bit more than trivial, it’s hard to imagine that’s the only or even most important thing on their minds…
What’s your take?
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February 20th, 2010
If not for Apple, I may have had the terrible experience of playing free Flash games and watching free Flash videos on my iPad…..
Apple Saves Us from Burden of Choice
http://ikidnot.blogspot.com/2010/02/apple-saves-us-from-burden-of-choice.html
February 21st, 2010
Not as simple as you say, Simon:
http://mac.blorge.com/2010/02/21/why-flash-on-ipad-is-useless/
February 23rd, 2010
Re: Reduced battery life. I can buy this happening if one were to run intensive Flash apps non-stop, but then the same applies to any intensive apps running non-stop. CPU usage=power draw regardless of the source. People seem to think that simply installing Flash will somehow destroy battery life. It does so no more than any other app; i.e. only when running and doing something the user wants.