(OT) iPhone 5

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Don't mind me, just one of those days!
I find a lot of the time it doesn't allow you to view clips etc if you haven't got a flash device installed, and yet it doesn't allow you to do this when you try. An Apple strategy I think?


The reason you can't display flash on an IOS device is because adobe and apple are in a long standing legal dispute, unfortunately for adobe flash is now outdated and HTML 5 is where it's going, which can in turn be played on I devices

Apple 1 - 0 adobe <laugh>

Flash was considered too buggy for Apples OS Flash Video and Flash Swf files are completely too different animals
 
I find the wifi connection on my iphone 5 is pretty chronic. Where I get three bars on the ipad and two on my sons iphone 3gs, i cannot connect with the iphone 5. Same issue connecting to wifi at work too.
 
The reason you can't display flash on an IOS device is because adobe and apple are in a long standing legal dispute, unfortunately for adobe flash is now outdated and HTML 5 is where it's going, which can in turn be played on I devices

Apple 1 - 0 adobe <laugh>
So tell me, how many football streams do you watch on your ipad?

Flash video is different and there are other players and other codecs and converter scripts used on the fly that detect the device
 
I agree but you cant watch football without flash which is what Im getting at. My browser uses html5 by default but then goes to flash if html5 isnt coded.

Emm, which pc browser you refer to mate? Half of the Internet has shifted from flash to HTML 5 so soon you guys will lose a point for your "you can't play flash on IOS "
 
Cerny, when you're platform qualified, try and get a transfer out to the Caribbean. There's a big ex pat community out here, the wages are better, and the weather's a dam sight better during shore leave!

My only problem with the 5 is my thumbs are too used to the screen position of the space bar on the 4 in relation to the bottom of the phone - I keep hitting too far down and have to edit a huge block of gibberish into words!!
 
Cerny, when you're platform qualified, try and get a transfer out to the Caribbean. There's a big ex pat community out here, the wages are better, and the weather's a dam sight better during shore leave!

My only problem with the 5 is my thumbs are too used to the screen position of the space bar on the 4 in relation to the bottom of the phone - I keep hitting too far down and have to edit a huge block of gibberish into words!!

Will only be intermittent gigs for roll outs etc, albeit I love Caribbean woman :kiss:
 
Everything I said it true which is why you cant refute it.

But can anyone say that Flash for even Android devices has delivered a great user experience? Choppy playback and poor battery life are the main complaints.

BTW Flash for Android has now been deprecated since 4.1, it's been removed from Chrome on the Nexus range, and while installing is possible it's a hack.

Windows Phone doesn't support it (allegedly, I don't have one), and development for BlackBerry and Symbian is ending. Flash is dying, and even Windows 8 will only have limited Flash support, and that's on the desktop. Sooner or later, everyone will have to move on.

Incidentally I read somewhere the other day that only 20% of all websites implement Flash ( http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-flash/all/all ) down 5% on the year - and before you say that's a significant number, it's only because of legacy sites - no agency worth their salt would build a flash dependent site nowadays.

So like the rest of the world (in answer to your original question) most of us can't watch on our tablets (even if we have a device 'capable' of playing flash, simply because it's too flaky and processor intensive), we mostly use our desktops... but long for the day when the football streams catch up with what's happening in the 21st century and we can watch in bed, on the sofa, on the loo etc. etc. etc.