Why does apple products not support flash

Oct 13, PM in response to meno In response to meno Oct 13, PM. Oct 14, AM in response to meno In response to meno Oct 14, AM. Nothing for you to replace it with. Sites have been transitioning away from Adobe Flash for several years now, and either removing the old Flash content without replacing the functionality, or by replacing the Flash functionality on their side with HTML5 streaming content which all browsers support.

A few will support it until the end of the year Google Chrome, for example. After that, it will not function at all. More Less. It's no wonder Adobe is expressing reluctance about the prospects of Flash for iPhone.

The company on Monday demonstrated a version of Flash for Windows Mobile handsets. And all that product manager Michele Turner could say about iPhone was, "We are working on Flash on the iPhone, but it is really up to Apple. Dann added that the only way Flash could ever appear on the iPhone is if Adobe offered an extremely stripped-down version of the software.

But even if there is a "Flash Lite" for iPhone, that just reinforces the point that the handset's owners still will not have a true Flash experience. And aside from taking software control away from Apple, Flash would introduce a slew of other potential headaches as well. Flash apps could hurt battery life, suck up the graphics-processing unit's power, use an inordinate amount of memory, or potentially introduce security risks. Unlike with the computers, iOS devices are closed, meaning users cannot install software unless it comes through the iTunes App Store and has been verified by Apple.

He said Flash was unreliable and could cause memory problems and instability with iOS devices. Analysts believe Jobs may also have feared that if Flash caused iOS devices to crash, Apple might get blamed for the poor user experience. The reliability and performance of such browsers is variable and they offer no guarantee that a particular Flash-based page will work correctly.

Other applications available on iOS devices get around the problem by connecting to your computer and using a remote desktop feature. Android is a strong competitor to the iPhone OS. What they don't say is that almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H. This is true. Fortunately, there are over 50, games and entertainment titles on the App Store, and many of them are free.

There are more games and entertainment titles available for iPhone, iPod, and iPad than for any other platform in the world.

In other words, Apple has enough clout with its mobile devices that it doesn't need to worry about relying on Flash. Plenty of developers and others in the industry disagree with Jobs that Apple's system is open, though.

Most notably, Apple controls the App Store, the sole authorized mechanism to add applications to an iPhone. Google, a Web powerhouse, is a strong believer in the Web as an applications foundation, and to that end, it is funding work on HTML5 and related standards for Chrome and Chrome OS, and using them in its online services.

It'll take a long time for all the Open Web standards to mature. Many of them are still under development--on Tuesday, Firefox backer Mozilla said it's holding off one new HTML feature called WebSockets until the technology settles down.