Comments on: Two Years In, How Much Do I Miss Not Having Flash On My iPhone?

By: curls

curls — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:21:34 +0000

Ive been on iphone since g1, I did miss flash at first, but seems to have come to terms with its, absence, especially as I hear it could seriously mess with battery life

By: scotiasystems

scotiasystems — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:47:52 +0000

Would’ve been nice to have flash on my iphone the other day when trying to demo a new website to a client. I prefer non-flash websites from an SEO perspective – but would be nice to have the option..

By: Hassan

Hassan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:48:46 +0000

First of all, a nice blog you have..keep up the good work. Secondly, about the flash thing. It seems like a must in web industry for a attractive and catchy site. Besides that a good lot of interactive apps can be created easily with out any problem. But as far as iphone is concerned, iphone guys does take care a lot of their own apps and stuff. So if flash appears in iphone the next day iphone’s own market would start falling. So it would be a big deal for iphone guys…On the other hand, flash is becoming life of day, I think they will end up introducing Flash in iphone.

Let see how the game goes…

Thanks

By: anderson

anderson — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:23:17 +0000

Nice blog, i think there is no need of flash for mobile based websites.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:13:36 +0000

Nice one, people seem to miss out on the fact that Flash for mobile does not necessarily connote Flash for mobile-based sites. I’m of the opinion that porting Flash to mobile devices as we have on Symbian and WindowsMobile tends more towards standalone applications as against webpages. We do not need Flash to play on mobile-based websites cos of resource limitations.

If Flash is ported to iPhone, it’ll be more useful for developing standalone applications and will ooze great apps and posibilities for the device.

By: GenoBaby

GenoBaby — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:24:07 +0000

You don’t miss it because you never got to use it. As for flash video there is an HTML fix for it but not all sites implement. I think there would be a lot of sites using flash specifically catered to view on the iPhone if flash was on the iPhone.

By: Chad

Chad — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:54:15 +0000

Stefan, Vimeo is one of the only real content sources I miss. Kind of wish Vimeo would do some user agent testing and just link direct to the H.264 clip for iPhone users.

By: Stefan Richter

Stefan Richter — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:48:26 +0000

I do miss it. And I could live without the all singing all dancing Flash, but it’s frustrating when you click a Twitter link which points to a Vimeo or Viddler video…
the undiluted internet? I don’t think so.