Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads"

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Post by sendos » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:36 PM UTC

Steve Jobs, circa 2020: "Thoughts on country roads"
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Post by th » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:51 PM UTC

I like the parody but it's not really a fair comparison. In many cases paved roads evolve out of country roads while nothing can ever evolve out of Flash.

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Post by waxman » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:54 PM UTC

The difference is, country roads are not nearly as bumpy as flash.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:54 PM UTC

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Post by barredo » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:54 PM UTC

I'm sorry. But Flash has a fallback (HTML5 for the web and iPhone Apps if wanna go native), country roads has not.

Also, real infrastrucures are a bit distant than web-infrasctructures. I mean, Google could possibly switch it's search engine from XYZ platform to ABC platform in a matter of months (made up numbers), try to switch road infrastructures of a country.

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, May 02, 2010, 7:57 PM UTC

barredo wrote: post #5

I'm sorry. But Flash has a fallback (HTML5 for the web and iPhone Apps if wanna go native), country roads has not. Also, real infrastrucures are a bit distant than web-infrasctructures. I mean, Google could possibly switch it's search engine from XYZ platform to ABC platform in a matter of months (made up numbers), try to switch road infrastructures of a country.

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Post by ANH » Sun, May 02, 2010, 8:05 PM UTC

th wrote: post #2

I like the parody but it's not really a fair comparison. In many cases paved roads evolve out of country roads while nothing can ever evolve out of Flash.

Worth a chuckle, but yes, not really fair.

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Post by Qz » Sun, May 02, 2010, 8:23 PM UTC

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Because the FUD is an excuse for not allowing Flash, not the end goal in itself.

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Post by pohl » Sun, May 02, 2010, 8:25 PM UTC

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...i believe same is the case with Mac.

I have never needed to install a flash plugin on a Mac.

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Post by Qz » Sun, May 02, 2010, 8:25 PM UTC

th wrote: post #2

I like the parody but it's not really a fair comparison. In many cases paved roads evolve out of country roads while nothing can ever evolve out of Flash.

Having biked 5073 miles across the country in question on many of those country roads, I can say that they tend to have a certain 'rustic charm' despite all the bumps. The same could be said of Flash content on the web, in 2020. Do we really just want to throw all that content in the trash, never to be viewed or interacted with again?