Jobs: Adobe Flash Is A Hog

Posted by on Mar 5, 2010 | One Comment

Is Steve Jobs just whining about Adobe Flash being a CPU hog on today’s computing devices? According to Jobs, he has no plans whatsoever for letting Flash find a home on the upcoming iPad. And on Macs, he made it clear that he felt that HTML5 is the future. Great, Steve, now if we can just convince the rest of the world to see the light, you might actually have a point.

Like Hulu? Not on an iPad you won’t. Flash based Hulu will not work on that Apple product. Flash games, interactive stuff using Flash on Web sites — again, fail with more fail coming right along side of it. Clearly, despite people begging for it, Apple is not budging on providing access to Flash even if Adobe does decide to play ball.

So does this mean it’s simply not possible for Adobe Flash products to run well on tablet type devices then? Uh, not from what I am seeing here. Both Flash and Air appear to be quite usable. Perhaps it’s Apple products that need to be called into question? I’m not really an Apple user outside of my iPhone, so I have no idea. But clearly, I will not be wasting my time with the famed iPad!

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  • leftystrat

    I hate it when Steve Jobs agrees with me. It makes it look like I agree with him.

    Droid is getting Flash but I don’t care.
    I’m with Steve :)