Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by rpledge » Wed, May 05, 2010, 11:31 PM UTC

Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo
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Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

#2

Post by mercury » Wed, May 05, 2010, 11:47 PM UTC

i can picture jobs big smug now.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by samps » Wed, May 05, 2010, 11:53 PM UTC

It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by cscotta » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:00 AM UTC

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right.

My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by pyre » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:02 AM UTC

mercury wrote: post #2

i can picture jobs big smug now.

Because of a single video on YouTube? Or because that video is on HackerNews?

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by naz » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:03 AM UTC

samps wrote: post #3

It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.

It's 2010. Apple decided Flash wasn't ready in 2007, and it obviously still isn't.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by joubert » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:09 AM UTC

samps wrote: post #3

It's a prototype; of course it crashed. But I don't understand why mobile Flash demos usually entail watching a YouTube movie... isn't that a solved problem? Doesn't seem like a good selling point for Flash.

I didn't know android or mobile flash are still prototypes...

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by apike » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:15 AM UTC

If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player.

Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the old style one. Presumably the demo really was Flash, although I'm not sure why you'd want Flash over HTML5 on a browser that supports it like the Android one.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by CamperBob » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:18 AM UTC

cscotta wrote: post #4

Alpha software is alpha-quality. It takes time to get things right. My pre-release stuff is full of bugs...which is why it's pre-release. Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Seems like it's a bit early to judge the quality of their product.

Seems like an excellent idea to keep it in the lab and out of the public eye, then.

Re: Android Tablet Crashes during Flash Demo

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Post by talklittle » Thu, May 06, 2010, 12:22 AM UTC

apike wrote: post #8

If you look at the YouTube player UI in the demo, it appears to be YouTube's HTML5 player, not their Flash player. Edit: I've been corrected here - for some Flash videos, they use the HTML5 style UI, and for some Flash videos they use the old style one. Presumably the demo really was Flash, although I'm not sure why you'd want Flash over HTML5 on a browser that supports it like the Android one.

Their Flash player now has the same UI.