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swf support and iOS 4.2

Other smartphones have it so we must.
Is the second major update aimed at iPad or is there signifant tweaking for the phone?

Windows 7, iPhone 4 with iOS 4.1

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 1:37 AM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2010 1:58 AM

Steve Jobs reasons for not having Flash are well recorded. Google.

4.2 for the iPhone similarly well recorded. First paragraph: http://www.apple.com/ipad/software-update/
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Sep 27, 2010 2:48 AM in response to Zoon2010

Other smartphones have it so we must.


Other smartphones also have malware, bloatware, undeletable operator crap, lousy user-interfaces etc.

Just because they do, does that mean we must have those too?

Is the second major update aimed at iPad or is there signifant tweaking for the phone?


AirPrint and AirPlay are significant tweaks for the iPhone.

Sep 27, 2010 3:46 AM in response to Zoon2010

Greetings,

You may as well forget Flash, and be glad for it. Flash is bad news, it is a resource hog, and all those other phones are having trouble with it, and not all of them have it yet.

Adobe would have to do a complete re-write of Flash to even stand a chance, but by then HTML5 will have passed Flash by - it's happening now, and at an accelerated pace.

I have Flash on nothing, and if I hit a page where I need it, and that is rare, I just read the text and move along. I have PeeCee's, several Macs, a couple of Linux boxes, etc, and I get by just fine. I rarely ever need Flash, and don't miss it.

Cheers,
M.
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Oct 1, 2010 11:27 AM in response to Zoon2010

I found my droid x had a firmawar update last night while I was at the bar after bowling with friends.

I decided to download it, and it was 2.3, and then adobe flash 10.1 was in my market place... I almost had a heart attack lol.

Long story short, it was very cool to be able to finally check the sports highlight videos and the weather for the next morning, which usually on bowling night I have to come home and check it on pc before bed.

I really thought it was so cool to be able to just go watch my news and weather and sports highlights while still at the bar, we were able to talk about the weather forecast and the sports highlights at the bar, when normally I would have to wait till work in the morning to talk with anyone about that stuff.

swf support and iOS 4.2

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