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08-19-2012, 07:49 AM | #3 |
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Just a bunch more content to be lost...In 10 years somebody will have a Flash emulator for those great old flash videos...
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08-19-2012, 07:57 AM | #4 |
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08-20-2012, 01:15 AM | #6 |
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08-20-2012, 05:50 PM | #7 |
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I think it is because Flash was used for web-interfaces to serve the content. Many blogs or forums used flash to do more interesting user-interfaces that HTML could not do.
For mobile devices - the same web page layout & features do NOT work as well with a touch/swipe on a phone or tablet sized interface. So developers have been busy building native iOS or Android apps that do not rely on web-technologies. So the market need for Flash has dropped. Mobile apps, tablets, smart TV's and media servers like Roku, Western Digital, etc., are the new hot properties. And of course native apps get higher ratings in iTunes and Google Play than re-packaged web pages. (Look at the Bank of America app - simply links to their web page in a I-Frame on your phone or tablet. Universally poor ratings.) |
08-21-2012, 01:43 PM | #8 |
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08-22-2012, 11:17 AM | #9 |
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If Flash is really dead, then does that mean I can take all of the flash-block software off of my different electronic devices?
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08-22-2012, 11:18 AM | #10 |
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Oh, and this:
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08-22-2012, 12:45 PM | #11 |
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iPhone not only killed flash but also did a good job in halting the web revolution: why develop a web page accessible from anywhere from any device when it's quite much better to have an app for it for 99 cents for each device?
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08-22-2012, 01:32 PM | #12 |
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Leaves me wishing I'd got hold of an Android pad, flash enabled, while I had the chance - be quite some time before many get upgraded to Jellybean 4.1, most makers are only just rolling out ICS 4.0
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08-22-2012, 02:48 PM | #13 |
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Flash dead? Maybe on some devices, I guess, but it's still used by YouTube. YouTube videos download into my PC's internet explorer cache as "videoplayback" (no .flv, have to add that when I grab and rename them) and can be played on VLC, though I use YouTube Video catching software to collect such videos. They usually turn into FLV files when the program is done. Note that I don't have a "smart" phone or any kind of cell phone, so I'm not technically advanced enough to realize some devices can't see flash videos now... I'll keep boring old Windows XP and my dial-up phone for now.
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08-22-2012, 02:53 PM | #14 |
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