Jobs comments on Flash at Apple Town Hall Meeting

[pinkoos]

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/31/stev...-and-more/

"No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5."

[Mini 9]

What does HE know?
pfffft. Even a broken clock is right two times a day!















tic

j/k

lol

[beagledave]

Is Flash going to be the "missing floppy disk drive of the iMac" of 2010?

[OWC Jamie]

More importantly

- New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

[Black]

What does this one mean?

- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

[H1N1]

Black wrote:
What does this one mean?

- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.

Blu-Ray software Licensing is a nightmare, Apple has a huge presence (Pixar/Disney is but two) with the content creators and wants to insure that any software created by Apple to play BluRay content cannot be used to steal that content. Apple's built-in DVD Player is still region locked after a set number of changes, and won't let you take a screenshot (or didn't in the past), these all have to do with licensing issues. Apple doesn't want to be accused of being the company that creates the tools that fosters content creation, but makes it easy for the content thieves to do their work.
Other OS creators don't have that problem.

[ztirffritz]

BluRay will never take off. It is dead out of the gate because the industry has tried to abandon too many formats too quickly. The population feels betrayed and bewildered. It is kind of like when Sony introduced MiniDiscs to compete with CDs and audo cassettes at the same time that MP3s hit the market. MiniDiscs were a great solution to a problem that no longer existed. BluRay is the same thing. Why bother with buying a disc of a movie when you can stream it from Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, or YouTube for the same price and know that you're media won't become obsolete in 3 years.

[ka jowct]

ztirffritz wrote:
BluRay will never take off. It is dead out of the gate because the industry has tried to abandon too many formats too quickly. The population feels betrayed and bewildered.

I wouldn't say that I feel betrayed and bewildered. I'm just sick of format changes. I can see reasons to update some of the stuff I have on VHS, but there is no way that I am willing to replace the DVDs with over-priced Blu-Ray versions and buy an expensive player for the new format.

I finally caved in last night and signed up for a NetFlix account; it seems preferable to accumulating more video content for which I would have to find room on my shelves.

On a related note: last week I bought a JVC DVD-VCR combo recorder and have been transferring some of my old VHS tapes to disc. It works pretty well, and will allow me to free up a chunk of shelf space.

[MacArtist]

Apple is just doing what it has always done...controlling the user experience. For the most part I've agreed with past decisions Apple has made.

Steve is no idiot. He's not avoiding flash for no reason at all.

I think I read somewhere that security exploits in Flash were becoming more frequent.

And if the reason is he is protecting Apple's revenue stream from iTunes, then he's just doing his job as CEO.

Do I think I am missing part of a richer viewing experience because Flash isn't available on my iPod Touch? I don't think so.

[Mac-A-Matic]

MacArtist wrote:
Do I think I am missing part of a richer viewing experience because Flash isn't available on my iPod Touch? I don't think so.

No offense to you, MacArtist - but that thinking is a load of crap.

I don't really care if the web is going to migrate to HTML5 over the next ten years (or less). And my own distaste and hatred for Flash-based websites doesn't matter either.

The fact remains that many websites today are written in Flash. Most of these websites information is contained within the Flash content. This means that the iPhone, iPad and iWhatever are rendered USELESS because of Apple's refusal to implement Flash into the systems.

I can't count the number of times I've punched up a website on my iPhone seeking contact information (or menus or whatever) only to find that it's a Flash site and my Frakking iPhone from Frakking Apple CAN'T handle the material and I'm left without the information that I seek.

I don't care if everyone is using HTML5 in a year or two, I need that information NOW.