Laptop Magazine Says Flash Performance On Android “Weak”…. Steve Jobs Chuckles….
If Adobe was hoping that people would sing the praises of their implementation of Flash on Android, they can forget about it. Laptop Magazine tested Flash on a Droid 2 and found the following:
I’m the last person on earth who wanted to believe Steve Jobs when he told Walt Mossberg at D8 that “Flash has had its day.” I took it as nothing more than showmanship when Jobs shared his thoughts on Flash and wrote that “Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices.” After spending time playing with Flash Player 10.1 on the new Droid 2, the first Android 2.2 phone to come with the player pre-installed, I’m sad to admit that Steve Jobs was right. Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.
Ouch. That isn’t the news that Adobe wanted to hear. I guess it’s back to the drawing board to Adobe with Flash on smart phones as I don’t know anyone who will want to run Flash on their smart phones based on this report.
Meanwhile, Steve Jobs has got to be saying “I told you so.”
August 23, 2010 at 8:04 am
With Android being based on Linux and Adobe only giving a less than half-hearted attempt at Flash there, it certainly makes sense.
March 4, 2011 at 12:52 am
Flash is actually not a closed standard. Their framework is open-source, and their spec is fully published. If Jobs thinks that Flash can’t run on mobile devices and javascript can, then he has made his lack of technical understanding of such things patently obvious.