Thread: iPad Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices
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Old 03-27-2010, 05:35 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by tomsem View Post
The numbers are interesting but say not much about what performance would be on iPad/iPhone. ...
Heh, for the foreseeable future nobody will know, since Apple will not allow Flash on the iPhone/iPad.

Flash 10.1+ has/will have hardware acceleration on Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and by 2011, Windows Phone 7, which resolves any battery and performance issues.

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Seems Adobe still has some work to tune up Flash on OS X. Or maybe the plugin architecture of Safari/Chrome/Firefox there is inherently hostile...
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Nope. I'll quote from the original article I referenced: "Mac OS X does not expose access to the required APIs." So, Flash will be slower on Macs than on Windows, because Apple refuses to cooperate with Adobe the way MS and Google do (not that on any modern Mac I have I notice any Flash issues).

Here is Gizmodo's take: HTML5 vs. Flash: The Video Benchmark Deathmatch
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