I woke up early today just to found out Adobe confirmed they will never (and ever) make their Flash into iXXX market (just the letter ‘i’ is the company’s trademark). So I think this is the best time to write a blog and express my longtime anguish and my excruciating distress against flash. So here it is…
Q: Why so many people afraid of it?
A: Because lot of people didn’t know about it and its advantages. Spend time reading Wikipedia.
Q: Why so many people still wants the legacy 32 bit apps running on their desktop?
A: Similar answer to question #1. And since many lazy software developers didn’t comply to rewrite or write their code to be 64bit natively, people who has 64bit operating system (mandatory for them if they had 4GB of RAM and more) chooses the alternative 32bit version of the software they wanted and as a result..a performance degradation (its not a typo error). Little they know (as far as Windows users is concerned, Linux OS has no trouble dealing with 64bit as Windows is) a 32bit software running on 64 bit operating system does not directly executed rather have to convert those 32bit instructions to 64bit compatible via WoW64 before the operating system passed it to the system processor.Do not worry, most people doesn’t care it anyway as long as it runs.
Q: Why is it I’m totally agreed with Steve Jobs (as you know, I’m a huge Microsoft fan) to disallow Flash on mobile web market. And for me not being a game enthusiast, kill the Flash also in desktop! who cares for FARMVILLE! hahaha. [negative comments will automatically ban! joke].
A: 64 bit was old as since as 1961, the hell with Adobe I’m waiting for 6 years now and still they could not make a native 64bit version of that. In my technical opinion, they can do it . Because if I’m wrong, I won’t believe how they able to build complex software like Phostoshop with extreme accuracy on cropping (yes, imagine how Magic Wand works in as fast as few secs) and other complex algorithm to their Creative Suites and besides they were able to build a 64bit apps version of them already.
- Almost majority of people still uses 32bit Web Browser application because those 64bit Browsers could not render 3rd party RIA’s like Flash, Java and Silverlight. Because these RIA’s doesn’t offer 64 bit edition of it. That is only a major concern but so far I love 64bit WB (have you heard about Namoroka?).
- For my opinion (again, technically imbecile speaking), Maybe Adobe afraid that some jerk (or whoever he/she is) tries to (if possible) to build a 5.6GB of pure Blueray HD movie and load it to their flash player. I couldn’t imagine that.
- Flash has no room for mobile market, don’t push it.. they don’t even able to fix issue why all mobile phones (regardless of OS/platform) could not exactly render to web browsers (come on Android, its still on beta testing!). What I really meant here is, you will have to login on your Facebook in your mobile web browser and play Farmville!.
- Either you have a Dual or Quad core mid-sized performance PC. Flash is CPU intensive app. Try to load your browser and play at least 2-3 Youtube videos see what you got there. Imagine if that is in your mobile phone. Even the fastest CPU for mobile (hmm 1Ghz ARM scorpion or better may be) crawls for that.
- According to Steve Jobs (I read this before promise!,but this is not the exact phrases he said, I converted it for my understanding), Flash is an “Old School” technology trying to cope for the New and exciting Incoming Technology and just trying to survive in the market. HTML5 promises to removed or lessen the use of 3rd party RIA’s such as Flash, Silverlight or even Java. Web Standards rocks!
