I couldn't give a rat's ass ...

April 29, 2010 · 8 Comment s

...about Flash on the iPhone, iPod, iPad, iReallyDontCare.

As an ACP (for ColdFusion), the CEO of an Adobe Solution Partner and Authorised Reseller, and an ACI ... maybe it's expected of me that I should care, and that I should be demanding Steve Jobs stops talking bullshit and gets the Flash Player onto the iDevices.

But honestly, I don't care.

I'm a heavy Mac user with a 27" iMac, a couple of MBPs and all our staff use MBs or MBPs. We all use iPhones too.

In regards the iPhone, I really don't need it to support Flash or flash apps. Seriously. Let me re-emphaise, *I don't need it*. For me, the only requirements I have of my phone are; make & receive calls; send & receive text messages, grab my email, VPN and SSH support. If it didn't have a browser I really couldn't care. If it doesn't have the ability to play videos, plays games, whatever.... I really don't care.

Do I care about the iPad? Nope. Apple can keep it. Does nothing for me. Doesn't solve a problem. Doesn't make my life any better or any easier. If I'm traveling, and I travel a lot, the last thing *I* need is another sodding device to cart about. I've already got my MBP, which *does* have support for the Flash Player through Safari, Firefox, Chrome and Opera.

Other people have a need for Flash on their iDevice ... and that's fair play to them.

But what does bug me about this whole Apple/Adobe, Flash/no-Flash thing is Steve Jobs' bullshit comments about keeping Flash off the iDevices so as to keep their devices stable, performant and with a decent battery life.

This morning I woke to the alarm on my iPhone. On trying to switch it off, the phone hung. Eventually it started to respond, only for it to reboot. Upon rebooting I discovered the damn thing had reverted to the factory default. I "lost" all my contacts, email settings, apps, photos, ringtones and whatever else was on there.

And this isn't the first issue I, or my staff have experienced with the iPhone.

... and let's take this further. I'm an MCSE and have been for years. That being said, I've not run a bit of native Windows kit for 2 years and all our servers for the last 5 years have been Linux. One of the reasons we moved to the Mac on the desk/laptop was because we were sick of all the shit that goes along with Windows; constant hot fixes and security updates. Numerous reboots. It's a pain in the ass.

Recently I've done nothing but install updates on the Mac, quite a few of which have required reboots.

This seamless experience that used to exist with Apple kit is gone. The stuff may look like a fine piece of ass, but if you look at it from just the right angle, you'll see it's actually a horse's arse. And it's starting to sniff like Windows.

So, to sum up, what the hell am I saying? Apple, stop blaming other vendors for the fact that your kit is getting worse. Reject apps all you want, ban the Flash Player, but until you fix your own shit nothing will stop the issues you reportedly tag the Flash Player with.

Your shit stinks.

Tags: What the F%*k?

8 response s so far ↓

1 daemonna // Apr 30, 2010 at 2:39 AM

totally agree.. apple trying to pretend they got perfect OS but there's no such thing.. every OS/app got bugs, hangs, is badly programmed... but i dont think Steve is goin to admit that, coz he would lost his image of divine and perfect... so yeah. Apple, your shit stinks :D
2 Brad Wood // Apr 30, 2010 at 4:48 AM

Kevin Hoyt of Adobe was in Kansas City this week and was telling us that one of the reasons Flash is slower and more CPU intensive on Apple devices is because Apple always refused to work with Adobe and give them hooks into the hardware acceleration so Adobe has had to rely on all-software rendering. I'd never really thought about that before. It's kind of ironic that performance is once of Apple's main complaints, and it turns out a lot of it is their own fault.
3 Chris // Apr 30, 2010 at 7:52 AM

Well observed. OS-X is definitely getting worse and maybe we should let Steve Jobs know what we think about his "quality".

I made the switch to OS-X two years ago, and, after a short time it FELT like being more productive than I had been on Windows. But, lately OS-X feels, well, just like Windows had. Updates that require reboots, program freezes, WLAN problems, OS-X crashes, you name it. OS-X has lost much of it's quality and meanwhile I KNOW that I am not being more productive than I was on Windows. I am seriously considering switching to WIndows 7 with the next machines. Cannot be worse, but, certainly will be cheaper.

Cheers

Chris
4 Si Forster // Apr 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM

This brought a tear to my eye and a smile to my face.
5 Simon Bailey // Apr 30, 2010 at 10:29 AM

"...Kevin Hoyt of Adobe was in Kansas City this week and was telling us that one of the reasons Flash is slower and more CPU intensive on Apple devices is because Apple always refused to work with Adobe and give them hooks into the hardware acceleration so Adobe has had to rely on all-software rendering."

This is what worries me, not whether Flash is on iDevices. If Adobe cannot hook into the hardware then this means limitations on Flash Player performance for OS X in the foreseeable future. As video and 3D rendering advances but handling on the Flash Player for OS X doesn't, the performance distinction between platforms will become more evident and that's where people will get pi$$ed, both developers and consumers.
6 Matt Gifford // Apr 30, 2010 at 11:57 AM

Completely agree. My phone dies constantly, and OSX now requires more updates, and Safari 'unexpectedly' closes on me at least twice a day.

Currently adding this comment from the iPhone, hoping it will last long enough to let me sub...
7 Sisk // Apr 30, 2010 at 2:18 PM

I've been saying it for years and I'll continue to say it. Apple products are overprice pieces of crap in pretty wrappers.

I sat down the other day to compare my $50 EMatic E5 to an iPod. Comparing it to any iPod even close to it in price was a joke. To get close to the features I had to compare it to one that cost three times as much. Even then, the E5 was the clear winner. Pretty sad when you charge three times as much for a lesser machine.
8 Eric Fickes // Aug 13, 2010 at 9:14 AM

Bravo sir, you nailed it. El Steve-o needs an iPhone up the iHole.