{"id":3942,"date":"2010-08-24T08:46:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=3942"},"modified":"2010-08-24T08:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T12:46:32","slug":"mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flash has had its day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support touch based devices.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d After spending time playing with Flash Player 10.1 on the new Droid 2, the first Android 2.2 phone to come with the player pre-installed, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sad to admit that Steve Jobs was right. Adobe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s offering seems like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too little, too late.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The difference between the smooth Flash trailers on Sony.com, the jerky episode of CSI, and the system-stalling Flash video on Fox.com is that the smoother ones were optimized specifically for phone playback. But if content providers have to go back and optimize their videos for mobile platforms, one of the key benefits of mobile Flash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c backward compatibility with millions of existing videos \u00e2\u20ac\u201c is lost. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re modifying your videos anyway, why not go the full monty and use an HTML 5 player instead of Flash?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Laptop Magazine takes a look at the Mobile flash players, yes from Adobe on Android v2.2, and realize that everything is not as rock steady as Adobe would like you to believe.<\/p>\n<p>For example, their was a clear performance difference between flash video for desktop and mobile&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0The Mobile players had significant difficulties if the video was not &#8220;Optimized for Mobile&#8221;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0Yet, wasn&#8217;t the idea of using flash on the mobile devices to allow the provider to create it once? \u00c2\u00a0So now they need a mobile video, and a &#8220;broadband&#8221; video? \u00c2\u00a0How does that help anyone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.laptopmag.com\/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right\">Mobile Flash Fail: Weak Android Player Proves Jobs Right<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flash has had its day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t support <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/mobile-flash-fail-weak-android-player-proves-jobs-right\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12,126,8],"tags":[228,252,114,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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