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Seems he was right all along.
Posted by itfc1959 on 10 November 2011 - 4:07pm.
And I suspect it won't be the last time, either.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/nov/09/adobe-flash-mobile-dead
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Done done done done done done done...
♪ Flash! ♪ ♫ Naaaahhh! ♫
I don't understand much about this
hoo-ha, but if it means an end to constant uninstalling of bloat-y Flash updates on my Android phone, then whoo-hoo say I.
(HTC Desire, limited internal memory...Flash'd take up around 18Mb of the available, with no discernable benefit)
On my HTC Desire
there's the option of saving to the SD card.
hmmm....have you rooted your phone?
I understand if you engage in the dark arts, you can free up a load of memory. I don't have the cojones to do that!
If I go to options on the phone and then application and select Adobe Flash Player 11, it shows it taking up around 13 Mb and whilst there's a button there to 'move to SD' it's greyed out, because the system software needs quick access, from local memory, to the plug-in, rather than accessing it via a card.
Like I say, mine is the old HTC Desire, NOT the Desire HD - the one they started to phase out in around March of this year.
Same here
You need to have at least Android 2.2 installed.
Not all software authors enable their applications to be moved onto the SD card; however, I've moved as many there as I can to free up the internal memory.
I'm on 2.2 as well..
oh well - whatever'n'the tarnation is causing it, my phone won't let me lob Flash onto SD card. I'm with you on the freeing up internal memory. It's just one of those things; bleeding edge phone a year or so ago, but in the last few months, more and more apps insist on being on internal mem and take up heaps more space. It's the fundamental Android weakness, unlike where Apple devise the hardware and software.
Thanks anyway, mate!
Mine doesn't either
What I meant was that you should move as many applications as you can on to the SD card. Although it sounds like you have already. Ho hum.
Untick the box
As soon as my Desire was unable to cope with the increasing size of the Flash updates, I unchecked the "Update Automatically" box for Flash and the new version has remained undownloaded and uninstalled ever since - the same goes for google maps for which I uninstalled all the updates and gave myself loads more free memory instantly. At least I can see pretty much all of the web on my Android phone, it'll be years before iphone users will be able to do the same.
cheers for that John
I'd ticked it and every now and then it'd mysteriously override it!
have it under control now though!
There's a curious poetry to all this language
even though I don't understand a word of it.
Sounds rather lovely though.
Like exotic birdsong or something.
To the OP
What was Steve Jobs right about exactly? I'm not sure I quite understand.
He wouldn't include Flash on the...
... iPhone or iPad because he said it was a memory hog and it was unstable.
I think (maybe it's just the two of us here!)
that the issue was that Jobs/Apple refused to work with Adobe such that websites which had flash content would work on Apple products. Jobs wrote an open letter and gave his reasons as to why he reckoned Flash wasn't up to the job - mainly that it was a PC style web-plugin which was mouse friendly, and not something written for mobile web devices which used pointing/jabbing/swiping.
He also said that Flash was a battery hound, I think, although how true that is isn't within my ken.
But
That's not the point of the article.
Flash are stopping development of versions of Flash Player for mobile devices. However, Flash developers will still be able to write in Flash and run the content on mobiles.
Flash is likely to remain on desktops and laptops, simply because HTML5 doesn't support DRM.