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Flash on Android is shockingly bad

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Re: Flash on Android is shockingly bad

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Post by gvb »

s/shockingly/predictably/

There is a lot more involved in "horsepower" than clock rate. Taking a power-optimized processor and running a program that is notoriously resource hungry (i.e. written very inefficiently) will result in a poor "user experience." Predictably.

Re: Flash on Android is shockingly bad

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gvb wrote: post #2

s/shockingly/predictably/ There is a lot more involved in "horsepower" than clock rate. Taking a power-optimized processor and running a program that is notoriously resource hungry (i.e. written very inefficiently) will result in a poor "user experience." Predictably.

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Re: Flash on Android is shockingly bad

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Post by zenocon »

there are a large number of sites that also demo html5 sucking just as bad. video=FUDcrap. 230+ points for this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646430 really? ...when it sent smoke rings out my dual core with 4GB of RAM? i most certainly don't work for adobe, but crap like this is what made me stop reading slashdot. btw: i like arcade fire a lot.

Re: Flash on Android is shockingly bad

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Post by maxharris »

Rabidgremlin wrote: post #5

I've had no problems watching on-demand video content from my local TV station on my Nexus One: http://www.tvnz.co.nz/video I would say the devil is in the implementations not the flash player....

If it really is fine, why don't you make a video and post it? Unless someone does this, the video above trumps text that claims otherwise.
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