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Adobe, Apple Collaborating on Flash for the iPhone

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bluecoyote

Feb 2, 2009, 5:40 PM
Although for sites like Hulu (would it REALLY work even? be honest), it'd be nice, Flash is kind of a PITA. Flash Lite for WinMo is a joke as all it does is load ads and slow your already anemic handheld down to a useless state.

It's a CPU hog to boot. On my laptop (which is getting old admittedly) I can play back VGA resolution MPEG 4 video just fine, but when it's that f**ing Flash crap, it's going to max out my CPU.

On top of that, ever tried to actually just browse a site loaded with Flash ads? There are actually some sites I prefer to go to on my iPhone vs. my regular browser simply because Flash causes a slow, annoying (those smiley ads and lowermybills ads) , and for the most part useless.

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Overmann

Feb 2, 2009, 10:40 PM
OK, so Flash might slow down your browser, but what about Javascript? I've caused an iPhone to crap its processor on a website that is a Javascript hog. I might as well skip the website on a lighter phone like my LG Dare!
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bluecoyote

Feb 3, 2009, 1:42 AM
With an LG Dare you can just skip the web altogether!
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