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Re:IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life by tjogin on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @02:10AM (#921239)
I don't believe that for a second. It sure doesn't explain why Flash isn't performant on Linux, or are you going to blame that on Linus Torvalds?
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Re:IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life by cloudwalking on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @03:13PM (#947144)
With actual GPU-accelerated H.264 decoding I’m guessing those CPU utilization numbers could drop to a remotely reasonable value. But it’s up to Apple to expose the appropriate hooks to allow Adobe to (eventually) enable that functionality.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3678&p=5

See this Adobe PDF for an explanation about Linux: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenote...

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Re:IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life by cloudwalking on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @01:54PM (#922317)
I don't think Adobe cares much about people on Linux. There isn't much market there.
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Re:IPhone Flash prototype got 30 min battery life by cakesy on Wednesday November 04, 2009 @05:21AM (#921434)
Linus won't let Adobe make a decent Flash plugin for Linux. Linus restricts APIs that the plugin needs to run well--things like access to hardware video acceleration.
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