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by sunchild 5230 days ago
And the "security" that they desired lost them tablet users on the dominant tablet platform...brilliant!
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ChrisLTD 5230 days ago
It's not even like these are major motion pictures. They are clips from a television news program that are released for free over the air and have an effective shelf life of less than two weeks. The potential downside to posting their videos in iPad compatible h.264 seems minuscule.
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sunchild 5230 days ago
Not to mention that once you've seen one 60 Minutes episode, you've seen them all. It's a legendary formula, but tired as hell.
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ConnorWGarvey 5230 days ago
Blame 60 Minutes for using the most ubiquitous web video technology instead of blaming Apple for not supporting it.
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Turing_Machine 5230 days ago
Android has dropped Flash, too, for anything beyond ICS.

So has Microsoft for the new Metro browser.

So has Adobe, for that matter, if you read between the lines (yeah, they've only "officially" dropped mobile Flash, but desktop Flash is on deathwatch).

A year from now neither any new mobile device nor the default browser on desktop Windows will have Flash.

Time to learn some new tools.

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warfangle 5230 days ago
Adobe has dropped android, not the other way around.
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sunchild 5230 days ago
Right, because I can't think of any reason why Apple wouldn't support Flash on a mobile device...
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