It is clear the WSJ doesn't get the deeper issues. For example, they refer to
flash as a video format. It isn't. It is a very complete, and siloed,
environment. Thus my as yet unanswered question about factoring out just the
flash video without the complete suite of actionscript and the byte code VM.
Steve is right on about many the other flash problems. I've wondered why my
laptop has so much memory and cpu usage and so have been running a system
analyzer. Boy, whenever the browser is on a noisy page with lots on flash adds
and widgets, the resource consumption goes through the roof!
Don't get me wrong, there are no nice guys. But Steve gets standards. He had
a true a-ha experience about unix, Internet standards, and graphics
(postscript) when he built NeXT.
---- Owen
I am an iPad, resistance is futile!
On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:15 PM, "Jochen Fromm" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Flash debate was a hot topic this week in WSJ, too.
> I guess Apple would find a solution if Steve Jobs would
> really want to find one. It is not a technology question, it is
> about power, control and money (and egos).
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704302304575214114101014460.html
>
> -J.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Densmore" <[email protected]>
> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]>;
> "SFx Discuss" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:27 PM
> Subject: [FRIAM] Thoughts on Flash
>
>
>> Steve Jobs has published an open letter on the exclusion of Flash on all
>> their mobile products:
>> http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/?AID=10480621
>>
>> Although I see the Complex potentially benefiting from Flash (ambient
>> projects), I have come to agree with the difficulties Flash presents after
>> digging into the technology a bit more, see earlier post:
>> http://bit.ly/9EXYHA
>>
>> Now here's a question I haven't answered yet: can a Flash video be viewed
>> without the rest of the Flash platform (which includes non- media
>> components)? I.e. could Flash video itself be standardized so that a
>> "simple player" could be made with a standard video codec and
>> html/css/javascript for the rest of the player?
>>
>> This approach appears the only direction that would satisfy both Adobe and
>> Apple.
>>
>> -- Owen
>>
>>
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