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Originally Posted by jusmee
My dislike of flash on websites has nothing to do with Apple. I don't own an apple gear. It's just a proprietory technology that's unnecessary and causes bloat and problems. I see it misused so many times when the job could be done better, more consistently, and would be smaller and much faster without flash.
Just look at how many times people find the download page on Astak's website to be broken and won't let them download new firmware.
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Oh I agree with you, flash is misused and a very poor choice to use at times, but by the same token you can experience issues with webpages just as frequently with .asp or python etc.
What I don't agree with (and not starting a flame war, just curiosity) is not using a technology specifically because one company refused to adopt compatibility with that technology on one of their products. If a company is not going to use a technology, then don't use it for the right reasons (such as not the best solution).
It actually quite amazes me that with flash for example, some people are so opposed to its use, but don't blink an eyelid when they are forced to communicate with Microsoft .Doc format (a closed proprietary format), something which costs you money to purchase software to be fully compatible with that format, yet flash is free.
What also astounds me is the Linux-based devices which require a Windows OS to install firmware updates; Microsoft refusing to acknowledge Linux and other open sourced operating systems as platforms which people use, yet quite happily took the tcp/ip stack and several unix apps (ftp for example) and ported the code to run on Windows; Apple being a 'supporter' for open source, quite happily take code from these open source software platforms yet don't provide compatibility between their devices and these other platforms....oh the hypocrisy!!!