IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life

Post by nuclear_eclipse » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 7:47 PM UTC

veemjeem wrote: post #6

kwantam wrote: post #5

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Agreed, this "story" smells fishy. How is it that flash works acceptably on other platforms but not the iPhone? A much more likely explanation is the one everyone has been assuming, viz., Apple doesn't want any code they haven't approved running on the phone, period.

Flash doesn't run "acceptably" on OSX or Linux. It uses around 30% of my cpu on either platform, compared to using only 3% of the cpu on my windows machine. Clearly they have some work to do before they can make flash as efficient as running on their core platform. Adobe should make flash work decently on other platforms before making one for the iphone... Running any flash app on my macbook causes the fan to turn on…

Post by daeken » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 8:11 PM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #13

No offense, but something you read on Reddit that some random dude heard from "a good friend" is probably complete bullshit. Nonetheless, it's still totally believable. But it probably represents almost no optimization on their end. If I can play a 3d multiplayer game over 3G for an hour without the phone crapping out, a think some vector graphics are surmountable. There just has to be a desire there. And clearly App…

Post by bvttf » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 8:23 PM UTC

X0nic wrote: post #9

yumraj wrote: post #4

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- I guess since it's on the Internet it must be true. - All the other smartphones which have Flash must have 30 min battery life. - Apple is saint and Adobe is evil. - iPhone is such an open platform.

Yes it would probably be safe to assume that 30mins is a little bit of an exaggeration. It doesnt make it any less true that most flash content are ads, and i dont want ads draining my battery even a little.

Post by Rawsock » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 8:58 PM UTC

daeken wrote: post #14

timdorr wrote: post #13

No offense, but something you read on Reddit that some random dude heard from "a good friend" is probably complete bullshit. Nonetheless, it's still totally believable. But it probably represents almost no optimization on their end. If I can play a 3d multiplayer game over 3G for an hour without the phone crapping out, a think some vector graphics are surmountable. There just has to be a desire there. And clearly App…

> Now, we just need a Flash (the big desktop creation app) equivalent that spits out HTML5 code. Anyone working on that? I was just discussing this exact idea with a friend yesterday (although it's something I personally wouldn't be interested in). If done correctly, you could backend to HTML5+JS+CSS and still emit SWF for legacy support. Would certainly be interesting.

Post by ajg1977 » Tue, Nov 03, 2009, 9:07 PM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #13

No offense, but something you read on Reddit that some random dude heard from "a good friend" is probably complete bullshit. Nonetheless, it's still totally believable. But it probably represents almost no optimization on their end. If I can play a 3d multiplayer game over 3G for an hour without the phone crapping out, a think some vector graphics are surmountable. There just has to be a desire there. And clearly App…