01-28-2010, 07:56 AM
silvarios wrote:
The Flash plugin on the Mac is still 32bit. Barring other technical reasons, if Apple wanted Flash (the only third party browser plugin that ships with OS X) to work with 64bit Safari on Snow Leopard, they had to create a system that ran plugins as a separate process.
The folks at Adobe have been rumored to grumble that Apple has undermined their attempts at making a 64-bit plugin.
Their CEO has complained that they'd have an iPhone version already, but for Apple's refusal to allow plugins and background apps.
Whatever the truth is to the allegations, there is a light version of Flash for cell phones and its absence from the iPhone is unusual.
My theory is that Apple is dissing Adobe and pushing HTML 4 deliberately to undermine Adobe's dominance in the video-streaming world.