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by aneth 5891 days ago
The only people I know defending Adobe and Flash are Flash developers and Adobe itself. Everybody else tolerates Flash begrudgingly. I miss a few flash games here and there on my iPhone. Beyond that, good riddance. Flash is the RealPlayer of the decade.
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CoryMathews 5891 days ago
I personally hate developing in flash and I hate flash websites.

However I enjoy flash videos and flash games. I don't want someone telling me I can no longer play these games.

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MichaelGG 5891 days ago
Defending Flash overall or for iPhone? I hate every Adobe product except Photoshop, yet I still am upset with Apple's decision on blocking other runtimes and forcing C.
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tdfx 5891 days ago
I am so glad you used that metaphor.
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zmmmmm 5890 days ago
I defend Flash in the same way I defend people people's right to free speech even when I violently disagree with them.
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schammy 5891 days ago
The whole article really has nothing to do with Flash. Did you even read it? It's about Jobs saying "this is bad for reasons X, Y, and Z", without acknowledging that Apple is guilty of the exact same BS.

Example - he basically says Adobe sucks because they just finally got around to releasing a full "Cocoa" binary for CS5. And yet Apple has the same problems. The Finder was Carbon until Snow Leopard was released, less than a year ago. And iTunes, arguably their biggest app, is still Carbon. Yet somehow because Adobe still had Carbon apps as of a few weeks ago, they are evil.

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apphacker 5891 days ago
I started using Amazon Video which uses flash. I like to be able to view movies and videos I've purchased where ever I am on whatever computer I am, and as of right now that's only possible with flash. I doubt Amazon would make this a direct video since Flash permits some form of rights management for content owners. If it were just a video I could download it and distribute it how I wanted. Which while ultimately is a nice idea but studios would just then not permit things like Amazon Video and so I like that Flash has enabled me to enjoy the content I want the way I can.
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stcredzero 5890 days ago
I like to be able to view movies and videos I've purchased where ever I am on whatever computer I am, and as of right now that's only possible with flash.

Silverlight?

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