maemo.org - Talk - A little something for Apple haters.

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Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 602209)

1) Flash is not going to be proprietary for long, Adobe is going to open the spec, just like they did for PDF.

but that doesn't solve the conceptual problems of flash.
Flash ist like Windows XP (with the DOS history), still carrying stuff around from the first days of its existents.
maybe you should have a look on the video of this lecture http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/F...s/3494.en.html

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Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 602209)

2) Give me an IDE that came make a game as good as a flash game that can run in any browser and is "open"

and exactly that is the major problem for apple as i mentioned. it would give companies to bypass the AppStore and therefore they wouldn't have to pay apple.

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Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 602209)

3) GAMES ARE IN FLASH. MANY COMPANIES DEPEND ON THESE GAMES TO SURVIVE. I though that CS5 would allow cross-compiling into iPhone, which would be pretty good. But Apple shut that down also! WTF!

Apple is not the Salvation Army.
In Germany they changed the Laws for subscriptions for mobile applications, ringtones and some other stuff. as a result most companies of this kind closed... and where is the problem? Germany is still not sucked up by a black hole.
These flash using companies should look for new markets, if you had a company which is still developing apps for Windows 3.11 for workgroups you would also switch to other operating systems (or at least for newer versions, which would also be like a new start in developing the apps).

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Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 602209)

4) H.264 IS NOT OPEN. Its freaking proprietary. Don't drink the kool-aid! Ogg Vorbis is not going to be used because it is NOT patented. Its so f'ed up. Thats why people use flash, its a plugin so it avoids these problems!

MP3 is also not open. Betamax was better then VHS, but what the point of that?
the reason why people doesn't use H.264 for web videos is that it is still not supported out of the box from all web browsers (flash also needs a plugin by the way). but that will change if the transition to HTML5 is gone further.
Just try out Youtube with HTML5 in different browsers... disappointing.
H.264 on the other hand is widely used for offline videos... so that would make the life easier for everyone.... except the guys tho develop video-converting-software.... ;-)

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Originally Posted by Thesandlord (Post 602209)

5) Apple fanboys are such hypocrites. First they say Flash sucks because all it is used for is banner ads, blah blah blah. But now the iPhone has iAds and no flash. And everyone is SOOO happy....

full ack!
still wondering why nobody complains about the lack of Java support :-)