Saturday, November 15, 2008

Apple needs to allow Flash on iTouch/iPhone!

Why is such a hard task to get Flash on the iTouch/iPhone or PSP. Why? It's not hard, just allow plug-installed on Safari. I heard from a Mac dealer that Flash consumes too much battery and it runs hot, and that Adobe needs to fix their Flash before it would allow it on the phone. As in my last blog, there is not much you can do about it. Transportability vs. CPU consumption.

My opinion is that Apple chooses not to allow flash to work, because it is in direct competition with their CODEC (Quicktime). Go figure, because it would hurt their chance of wide acceptance of Quicktime that they are going to prevent the plug-in to install. What a load of ****? If the Flash player install on iTouch/iPhone hinder sales, then that is in direct opposition to what the consumers are saying. In actuality, Flash has no correlation on how successful and widely accepted the iPOD family, (mainly iTouch/iPhone) has been. Yet, I believe it would increase the sale of an iTouch/iPhone. It certainly hasn't prevented me from buying one. So why prevent Flash from being downloaded? My only conclusion would be because it is in direct conflict with QT. QT in my opinion has outlived its usefullness, although I have to say it, Flash uses it in its Flash Video conversion (so it is an industry standard).

I would like to see Flash on the iTouch/iPhone and observe the correlation with increased sales. The iTouch/iPhone has reached the masses, and the mass is saying it should be there. Why is Apple not listening to their customers? Apple should take advantage of that, and market it as being the first full-content searchable browser, which they claim, but is not true. By the way, I don't need to tell them. They already have excellent marketing.

The main reason I purchased an iTouch was the WiFi capability vs. the WiFi-less Blackberry. A reason I wouldn't purchase the BB, and consider an iPhone. Though the BB has revolutionized e-mailing, it is still behind on advancing technology, and the only reason why the BB is the way it is and others like them are the $ generated from data plans.

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