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Mobile Flash player is dead.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: bloody000 on November 09, 2011, 09:12:52 PM ---Official post from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
Couple of things:
AIR apps are irrelevant as Flash plugin is what enables users to browse Must-have-Flash sites, slowly.
All major mobile systems support direct streaming of mp4/h.264/AAC video, less overhead too. There is no need for flash unless you want to be sure your users can't skip that Honda Civic ad before the actual content.
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but no one wants direct links that means other people will steal it. Companies like there RTMP and the new HDS delivery method.
iindigo:
--- Quote from: halfelite on November 09, 2011, 08:56:15 PM ---I thought with flash10.3 the mobile/desktop version were merged into the same code base. no longer separate.
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That may be the case, but it doesn't mean that development of desktop and mobile versions are one in the same. Android is a separate platform and requires extra development.
This is the case for many cross-platform applications - for instance, Firefox runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. All three share the same codebase, but each platform has its own developers that write code specific to each and keeps it running on each platform. So if, say, Mozilla ceased development on the Mac version of Firefox, it would continue to run for a while. As time progresses and new versions of Mac OS are released, however, nobody would be fixing any bugs specific to Mac OS and it would eventually become unusable.
This is what will happen to Android's build of Flash.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: halfelite on November 09, 2011, 10:06:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: bloody000 on November 09, 2011, 09:12:52 PM ---Official post from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
Couple of things:
AIR apps are irrelevant as Flash plugin is what enables users to browse Must-have-Flash sites, slowly.
All major mobile systems support direct streaming of mp4/h.264/AAC video, less overhead too. There is no need for flash unless you want to be sure your users can't skip that Honda Civic ad before the actual content.
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but no one wants direct links that means other people will steal it. Companies like there RTMP and the new HDS delivery method.
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Didn't stop anyone downloading videos with browser addons/extensions.
AceHigh:
And I have yet to buy a phone that can be used for browsing internet... I will never understand this whole smartphone concept, luckily dumphones are still around and don't seem to be declining in variety.
bloody000:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on November 10, 2011, 09:30:27 AM ---And I have yet to buy a phone that can be used for browsing internet... I will never understand this whole smartphone concept, luckily dumphones are still around and don't seem to be declining in variety.
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