9 nov

Steve avait raison

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Steve Jobs, en Avril 2010:

In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices. We have routinely asked Adobe to show us Flash performing well on a mobile device, any mobile device, for a few years now. We have never seen it. Adobe publicly said that Flash would ship on a smartphone in early 2009, then the second half of 2009, then the first half of 2010, and now they say the second half of 2010. We think it will eventually ship, but we’re glad we didn’t hold our breath.

Nous sommes en Novembre 2011 et Adobe annonce l’arrêt du développement de Flash Player sur les mobiles (via ZDNet):

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations.

Je reviendrai plus en détail sur ce sujet dès que j’aurai fini de rigoler…

15 sept

Pas de Flash pour Windows 8

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David Adams sur OSnews:

Microsoft announced during the build conference, and Steve Sinofsky reiterated in a blog posting that: “For the web to move forward and for consumers to get the most out of touch-first browsing, the Metro style browser in Windows 8 is as HTML5-only as possible, and plug-in free. The experience that plug-ins provide today is not a good match with Metro style browsing and the modern HTML5 web.” Sinfosky goes on explain why Microsoft will not include Flash and why it’s no longer needed.

Il ajoute:

This is good news for the web. I do think Adobe has had enough time to make Flash work properly on mobile, and they simply failed. Since the release of the iPhone, Adobe promised us a working Flash on mobile, and now, four years down the line, it’s still not there. Between then and now, we’ve seen entirely new mobile operating systems rise, we’ve seen an entire Windows release, and another one being made, several Mac OS X releases, and so on. Yet, Flash still isn’t ready?

You had your chance, Adobe. You failed.

Bon, je pense que cette fois, c’est clair, non ? Apple et Microsoft, même combat. C’est une petite victoire mais qui risque bien de définitivement faire disparaitre Flash de nos vies.

C’est en tout cas bien plus réjouissant que l’annonce du support d’iOS par Flash Media Server 4.5 d’Adobe, qui certes va dans le bon sens mais n’amènera pas les gens à abandonner Flash, bien au contraire. Pour faire simple et clair, FMS 4.5 diffusera des vidéos HTML5 aux devices iOS, et des vidéos Flash aux machines le supportant. Sauf que le failback fonctionne dans le mauvais sens: sur mon Mac volontairement sans plugin Flash, FMS 4.5 ne me diffusera pas du HTML5 mais m’invitera à installer Flash Player. C’est moche.

6 juin

Un App Store sans porn pour achever Flash ?

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C’est une thèse avancée sur Woork Up qui se tient, je trouve. Parce qu’Apple peut contrôler le contenu de l’App Store mais pas le web et son contenu HTML5, ce serait ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez de penser que le porn n’existe pas sur iPhone et autre iPad…

If Apple can have a sort of censorship on downloadable applications within the Apple Store, it certainly cannot control everything that happens in the whole web galaxy. In fact, YouPorn, Tube8 and many other similar sites have already converted their videos from the Flash format to HTML5 thus making them perfectly usable on the Apple devices, among which you can of course find the iPad.

De là à imaginer qu’Apple empêche l’éclosion d’applications natives pour iPhone/iPad de la part des éditeurs de porn pour les obliger à publier leur contenu web en HTML5 au lieu de Flash, il n’y a qu’un pas que je franchis allègrement. La publication de vidéos porn représente certainement une très grande part de marché dans l’utilisation de Flash (ça a d’ailleurs fait l’objet de  vives polémiques à l’annonce de l’iPad, souvenez-vous), l’arrivée d’HTML5 pourrait changer la donne.

One thing is for sure: if the iPad does indeed win over the competition as a platform for the fruition of Internet content, it will be up to those who manage entertainment websites to choose whether to stay with Adobe Flash or to catch a growing business opportunity.

Needless to say they will probably go for the second one and we’ll see a mass migration to HTML 5.

30 avr

Les réflexions de Steve Jobs concernant Flash

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Publiée hier sur le site d’Apple, une longue lettre de Steve Jobs “Thoughts on Flash”, détaillant les multiples raisons pour lesquelles Flash n’est pas disponible sur iPhone/iPod/iPad et ne le sera probablement jamais. Ca mérite une lecture complète, mais pour les plus fainéants d’entre vous, voici quelques passages clés, et dont je suis également convaincu.

Flash n’a pas été conçu pour les mobiles et encore moins pour les devices multi-touch comme ceux d’Apple:

Flash was designed for PCs using mice, not for touch screens using fingers. For example, many Flash websites rely on “rollovers”, which pop up menus or other elements when the mouse arrow hovers over a specific spot. Apple’s revolutionary multi-touch interface doesn’t use a mouse, and there is no concept of a rollover. Most Flash websites will need to be rewritten to support touch-based devices. If developers need to rewrite their Flash websites, why not use modern technologies like HTML5, CSS and JavaScript?

Adobe ne veut pas faire de bonnes applis pour iPhone/iPod/iPad, mais de bonnes applis multi-plateformes, ce qui signifie pas adaptée à chaque device mais diffusées plus globablement, donc business-oriented (sous-entendu, nivelées par le bas et ça, ça va à l’encontre de la façon de penser d’Apple):

Flash is a cross platform development tool. It is not Adobe’s goal to help developers write the best iPhone, iPod and iPad apps. It is their goal to help developers write cross platform apps. And Adobe has been painfully slow to adopt enhancements to Apple’s platforms. For example, although Mac OS X has been shipping for almost 10 years now, Adobe just adopted it fully (Cocoa) two weeks ago when they shipped CS5. Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.

Et ouch, la conclusion qui tue:

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.

New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.

14 avr

Apple vs Adobe, une vendetta ?

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Entre le non-support de Flash sur iPhone et autre iPad, et la nouvelle section 3.3.1 de l’iPhone Developer Program License Agreement (qui, grossièrement, interdit d’utiliser la nouvelle suite CS5 d’Adobe pour pondre du code iPhone), Apple semble avoir une vieille rancune envers Adobe. Capilotractée ou pas, j’aime bien l’idée exposée dans cet article sur Innerdaemon:

In 1996 when Apple was seemingly on the ropes, Adobe made a crucial business decision and one that is coming back to bite them in the ass. They declared that their primary development platform would be Windows; subsequently, every new application or major revision of a product was introduced for Windows first and followed months later, sometimes never at all, by a Mac version.

(…)

Adobe had multiple chances to prove their worth to Apple and they failed miserably. They ignored the OS X version of Flash. They ignored Photoshop – witness the rise of Acorn, Pixelmator etc.

Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself. You made a business decision in 1996 to screw Apple when it needed you most to gain credibility for its fledgling OS with the creative crowd. Somehow, Apple making a business decision to protect its customers from your shitty product is the most egregious ethical concern of our time.

L’expression “La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid” trouve tout son sens ici. A lire dans sa totalité sur Innerdaemon, pour comprendre comment pendant les 14 dernières années, Adobe s’est elle-même entrainée dans la situation inconfortable qui est la sienne aujourd’hui.