Flash and Mac do I need to worry?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by ecchi

Actually, given the popularity of Flash, I'd say that unless Apple do a fast U turn on this, the result will be that that Macs are slowly dying.

It comes down to a pissing war with Adobe and Apple.

Back when Apple really was dying Adobe cut Mac support way back. Flash on Macs was really slow and lacked features that the Windows version had like support for hardware acceleration.

Flash on Macs still isn't great. Apple says that Adobe's programers are lazy and Adobe says that Apple won't give them low level system access.

So it isn't that Apple is trying to kill Flash it's that Adobe won't write decent Mac support of Flash.

All this while HTML5 is maturing and does what Flash does only better.

Hype is a new program does Flash style animations using HTML5 and I'm noticing that more and more websites are using HTML5 for video streaming.

As far as Flash on mobile devices I've played around with a few Android phones that had Flash support and it really sucks for anything beyond watching videos to the point of being pretty much unusable.

So it isn't Apple killing Flash it's Adobe killing Flash.