Quote:
Originally Posted by rock
Saw this after I posted.
but the flash kills battery life, no ANYTHING that uses resources kiling battery life. That is like me saying put a dvd in and watch a movie and watch your battery life die. You can't pin that just on flash. That is why I said really. It is a poor excuse. Using apple apps to watch stuff on my iPhone kills the battery.
|
Apparently you didn't read Job's point on Flash killing batteries faster.
Quote:
|
Although Flash has recently added support for H.264, the video on almost all Flash websites currently requires an older generation decoder that is not implemented in mobile chips and must be run in software.
|
Yes, doing anything on a device will drain the battery. Jobs is just pointing out that Flash, using software decoding, will drain it faster, rendering the battery life on an iDevice to a level he feels is unacceptable.
If you read my response earlier, I say it's a weak argument. Let the buyer beware and make their own decision. Run Flash and only have 2-3 hours of battery life, or view h.264 video (which uses dedicated hardware decoding) and double your battery life.
Jobs goes on further to explain that while Desktop implementations of Flash are now beginning to support h.264 video, that if developers are going to go through the process to convert their video to h.264, why not just use an open-standard as HTML5 for the container format than continue to use Flash. HTML5 is an open format, on the way to becoming a web standard (in 2 years, or in 12, Flash will
never be an open standard format), and available on many platforms and in many browsers.