Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android
by ugh on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @12:06PM
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Yeah, that would have been swell had Apple worked with all their might to bring DRM to Safari! /s
What is wrong with you?! You are talking about the tiny slice of all possible stuff that pretends it needs fucking DRM. What. The. Hell.
Re:Adobe confirms: no Flash for Chrome on Android
by MatthewPhillips on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @02:39PM
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Big studio video content accounts for the vast majority of video streamed over the internet. Apple did not ignore DRM on their own platform; they have it, they encouraged big studios to use it (and they did, happily), they just ignored the cross-platform part. Which would be perfectly fine had they not released their "Thoughts on Flash" piece saying the exact opposite.
Here's the chain of events as I see it:
1) Apple decides not to support flash. 2) A lot of people get upset. 3) Apple releases their thoughts on flash[1] which revolves around flash being proprietary and HTML5 being an open solution. [1]http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ 4) Content owners can't delivery video through HTML5 because it's not DRM. 5) Apple works with content owners (specifically ABC) to create native iOS apps. Native apps on other platforms come way later, if ever. 6) HTML5 still doesn't have a solution for DRM content. Apple isn't working on this problem.
Basically they said one thing and then did another.