Dropping Flash no big deal: Jobs
Saturday, 20 February 2010, 00:24 IST   |    1 Comments
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Dropping Flash no big deal: Jobs
Bangalore: Apple Chief Steve Jobs says that dropping Flash is no different than the decision to drop the floppy drive from the iMac. He said that Flash is an obsolete technology and should be dropped in favor of better option, while speaking to the Wall Street Journal. He purportedly likened it not only to floppies but also to purging old technologies like FireWire 400, non-LED backlit LCDs, or the dependence on music CDs, reported electronista. The Apple co-founder went so far as to label Flash a security risk and a "CPU hog." According to Gawker, Jobs argued the iPad's battery life would drop from 10 hours to just 1.5 due to the sheer amount of resource overhead. The claim is potentially an exaggeration: battery life on newer MacBook Pros has been tested as shrinking by over an hour with Flash active, although the faster processors and added memory help absorb some of the performance concerns. Jobs told the newspaper executives that they should convert Flash-dependent material to HTML5 and use H.264 for videos. Other publishers, like the New York Times, have already been more receptive to these sorts of overtures and have developed an iPad-sized version of the Times Reader app that plays native video in-line, skirting entirely around the lack of Flash.

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