Flash support for Google Android incoming
Adobe Flash. It drains your mobile's battery, makes proper videos play nice and provokes the ire of the hardest of hardcore tech geeks every time its found lacking in a supposedly killer device.
But while we can't report any good news about it rearing its head in the iPhone, Adobe has confirmed plans to make it play nice with Google Android devices, including the T–Mobile G1. One of the first Android phones biggest failings is its complete lack of full–on video support.
A suit from the video people said we'd be seeing,"... an Android-based version of Flash in the coming months." Obviously that's nice and vague, but T–Mobile did say at the launch of their blower that it was something they'd been working on and that existing users would eventually be able to get on their handsets.
Sadly though, that's where the good news ends. Apple, it's your turn to make us Flash happy.
For more on the T–Mobile G1, check out our in–depth review.
Comments
Gregz
3 years ago
Flash enabled websites in iPhone Safari would drain the device. A Flash video player, with embedded link code in Safari would rock.
PS3-man-u
3 years ago
But there's iTranmogrify 2.0 (When you're on the YouTube website on your iPhone, pick a video you want to watch, open the iTranmogrify 2.0 app in bookmarks, and it opens it in the proper UTube app). Its only on jailbroken iPhones though.
PaulJRiley
3 years ago
So the Apple users would have us believe that Adobe Flash is both a security risk, and bloat-ware, and you would need your head testing, if that's the case then I guess they should remove it from the iBook/iMac and enjoy the internet without the Flash.
Alternatively, if you read between the lines, what these people are really saying is, Yes we want apple to drain all the money we have through the iTunes shop, We want Apple to tell us what applications we can and can't have on our phone. We want a phone that looks coooooooooooooooool, but is functionally crippled.
I say, good, keep thinking that way, and I'll go for the phone that is only limited by my, and an army of android developers, imagination, but hey it takes no imagination to by an iPhone in the first place.