[opendtv] Re: News: New Cable Fight at Hand
- From: Kon Wilms <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:42:36 -0700
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Richard C. Ramsden <ramsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Apple's resistance to flash is economic!
>
> It is a breach in their wall! If their players, and their software are the
> only gate, they control access. Allowing flash means losing. That would be
> losing just about everything.
... especially when Flash developers can wrap their games/apps in AIR
and deploy them to the app store.
Storm in a teacup as far as apps are concerned.
The real resistance IMHO is that flash is a good size install, sucks
down browser memory like a champ, and requires constant security
updates. Mobile safari right now has no process separation IIRC, which
is coming in a future version. So a zero-day flash exploit could
potentially get hundreds of thousands of handsets owned. Which would
damage Apple stock significantly. Same goes for performance in Mobile
safari and general product usability. 10 million devices manufactured
with 256MB RAM is a massive cost savings when the browser doesn't have
to do any heavy lifting memory-wise...
Cheers
Kon
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