Comments on: HP Slate Running Flash Player and AIR

By: HungryCaterpillar

HungryCaterpillar — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:42:48 +0000

I think Apple is just getting greedy. Apple wants to own EVERYTHING. It is trying to create a closed user ecossystem where consumers are stuck with Apple’s hardware and software.

Anyways, forget the iphone… check out the new HTC Desire:

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/htc-desire-review

Better. Cheaper. It runs Flash.

By: Dax

Dax — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:27:59 +0000

Why would Apple leave technology ? Flash is used on many sites.
If it is because of memory and batterylife ? Well… I would like to do whatever I please with my iPad.
Screw them. Apple is starting to become an uptight company for groupies and faggs. In 2025, Apple decides to stop whiping after going to the toilette.

By: Harrison Judd

Harrison Judd — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:37:53 +0000

I have been working with Apple products since 1985, and with Adobe since Photoshop 2. Since Adobe’s merger with Macromedia, and their embrace of Flash – the company and the mood surrounding the company has been corporate and short sighted in the worst way. The products look less and less appealing, are more feature laden with less meaning behind the features, and have become less fun to use. Apple’s decision not to use Flash is, in my opinion, simply a smart move away from a company that has been on a downward spiral for several years now.

By: ken

ken — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:38:22 +0000

My guess for the reason flash is prohibited on the iDevices is to maintain the market for the App Store. If you could run flash on the idevice, they there would be a ton of games that could be sold not through the apple store. This would both be loss of revenue and control for apple. Personnally, I’ve never been a huge fan of all Flash web sites, but Flash used strategically makes sense.

By: Apple pip

Apple pip — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:12:42 +0000

At least one company is saying loud what a lot of users if not developers experience – slow sluggish Adobe products – hope will get other alternatives to Adobe – such as we are getting now HTML5 – goodbye Flash.

Palm sat on their crown and had a great fall – Adobe should be careful…

By: Tom Dibble

Tom Dibble — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:40:07 +0000

Not to nit-pick, and I know the point of this is the Flash crap playing on the device (honestly, I’d rather pay for a TV show than have a glaring Tide commercial taking up half the screen while it plays …), but this shows exactly why the HP slate is not a competitor here.

0:53: Flick … pause … then screen scrolls. Weak responsiveness. And this isn’t even multi-touch!

1:43: Nice “avoid the crappy site navigation and Flash loading by switching to another tab” move. Yeah, Flash-based and Flash-heavy sites are a real *dream* to use when you don’t have to do any of that pesky Flash-based navigation!

2:49: Pandora takes FOREVER to load!

4:00: Nice single-touch interface. Can I introduce you to 2007?

4:15: “It brings a really immersive experience when I launch the video player” … I don’t think someone actually thought that sentence through. Does the fact that video plays on the device make it de facto immersive? Are Adobe’s standards that low? Because all that was happening there was video playing in a postage-stamp window on the screen. Hardly “immersive”.

4:26: Good thing I don’t want to solve the last three rows of that crossword puzzle. Or is there some kind of a magic scrollbar that AIR is hiding from us there? I mean, it’s already showing butt-ugly “matches no system in existence” styled scrollbars on the clue windows, so I have a hard time believing this was a style choice. Why is there no apparent way to see the bottom 10% of the puzzle? Which actually, of all the complaints here, speaks most directly to AIR apps: they often tend to be butt ugly. As seen here.

4:34: Those control and alt keys in the onscreen keyboard must be a dream to use without multi-touch! But, more importantly, the keyboard is untethered, so it will never be something you can touch-type with (yes, you can touch-type on a touchscreen) … I’m assuming that you can make it smaller so you can type into 28-down, right? I mean, when the keyboard hides half of the screen (and the apps don’t know where it is so don’t reconfigure when it’s up), it seems like you’ve built failure right into the OS.

4:57: Nice glare. I know, the iPad also can be glarey. More importantly, though, the colors are off when viewed off-angle. Which makes it harder to angle the device to avoid glare, which makes glare a serious issue where on the iPad it is just a nuisance.

By: bowc

bowc — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:12:53 +0000

wow, wide screen held as portrait seems so wrong.

we need products like this to highlight all the right choices apple have made. otherwise they would be just taken for granted.

all in all, hp tries to out-spec an apple device. years after the iphone lesson. PC never learn.

can’t wait to see how this fares against the ipad on the market.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:11:50 +0000

So, cool, but “Slick” â€“ no. WTF is that nasty pattern texture crap all over the back, and, um, it’s too small, and yeah, NOT slick at all…

At least it plays nice with the content I create ;\

By: digerati

digerati — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:42:12 +0000

From my point of view this movie tries only defend the flashplayer idea and keep it alive on a market. Showing stats that 75% of videos are flash isn’t very convincing and doesn’t prove anything as this is for NOW, not the future. When we have HTML5 around the corner I would say that this 75% flash videos will drop down really fast below 50% and so on. The argument about leaving the web to watch movies in other format is really weak – admit, how many times you had to leave the web to watch video in other format?
AIR is the future for Adobe, not flash embedded videos.

By: TOM

TOM — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:11:42 +0000

But where ist Flashbuilder 4? Flash CS5?
When is Air available on Iphone, Android and Symbian OS?

It’s nice to see what the Flash Platform everything could do…
But what if I have to make the decision (js or Flash) now?

Until about 2 years ago it was not easy for Flash developers because of missing flash player installations in many companies.

Ok this is (was) no problem until the year 0 aakaa(after apple kicking adobes a…)

Adobe please help….