Adobe Flash Player 10.2 spills beans on Android 3.1 video acceleration

NOT SURE ABOUT THAT MOST MAJORS ALREADY HAVE AT LEAST 2 TABLETS LINED UP & THIS IS ONLY A COUPLE MONTHS INTO HONEYCOMB. I DONT EXPECT THERE TO BE AS MANY AS PHONES BUT I THINK MAJORS LIKE SAMSUNG WILL HAVE AT LEAST 4-5 BY YEARS END. THEY ALREADY HAVE 4 SLOTTED, ACER 2, MOTO 2, & WERE JUST HITTING THE 2ND QTR

It’s MP3 players again. Most tablets will not be bought in carrier stores or given away for free. Android’s big advantage over Apple in phones is price and distribution: Android has free phones on every carrier and Apple has only 1 high-end phone per year on about 40% of carriers. Apple is much newer to phones than Samsung, LG, Motorola. But in MP3 players and tablets, Apple has both the price and distribution advantage, and is the first mover. They are in Apple Store, Best Buy, and so on, which are the places that consumers are going to buy tablets, not carrier stores.

Apple is also the biggest tablet vendor (unlike in phones) and also the biggest MP3 player vendor, and also the biggest notebook vendor, so with a tablet being part MP3 player, part notebook, they have all the advantages on volume.

And they already had critical mass, with over 25 million users of a very mature device that is about to get its v5 operating system. Nobody else has sold a million 10-inch tablets. Samsung may have sold a million 7-inch models, but they are just big iPod touch, and Apple leads there, too, with 50 million sold.

Also, in the early 00′s we always thought “why don’t iPod competitors try harder?” and that is what you see in tablets today. Vendors are not understanding what users want, they are happy to just give them something that looks like the Apple device while lacking key ingredients.

Spot on except for the last part.. they aren’t lacking any key features..

Doesn’t the iPad have less features than the competition? Seems like Apple always goes with very simple products, sure my grandma and my 7 year old niece can use them but I like to think I’m capable of handling complex and powerful electronics because in the end they can do a whole lot more and thats what I’d prefer… I also love customization and personalization; you can change almost anything on the android platform, 90% of users just don’t know how…

I need to buy a DROID OS 3.1 tablet whenever this comes out.

I have the new BB Playbook with Adobe Flash, Last year I had iPad1, It’s true I can watch some flash video I couldnt watch on iPad BUT. to tell you the true, I see more Flash Ads than videos. Must of the videos on internet are linked to youtube so you can watch them with iPad. For every Flash video I watch on playbook, I have to see 50 flash ads, I hate all these ads that mess up my browser and eating up my battery, and Yes, you can desable Flash on playbook but then you wont be able to watch any youtube video. this tablet sucks, I will exchange it for iPad2.

I don’t own a tablet yet so I don’t have a dog in this fight but I’m curious if you ran into non-video related Flash issues with the iPad often. For example, recently I was at a friend’s who had an iPad and we were buying movie tickets online. This particular theater allows you to select your seats ahead of time and they use Flash functionality for the seating chart. It didn’t work on the iPad and we weren’t able to complete the transaction. I’ve also noticed there were problems with sites that use Captcha image recognition security.

@shadrach I think that is the whole point people miss. they get so wrapped up in talking about watching flash videos, that they forget other things use flash as well. thats where the advantage goes to having flash. you can pretty much do anything on the web with a phone that runs flash. I dont want limits. if the technology is there then why not use it.

With Android you can set Flash to be off by default, then you can click on the Flash content you want to see. Basically, you see no Flash ads and you only load Flash when you want.

85-90% of the pr0n sites that you found by typing in “iPhone porn” work on ios devices video and all.
Nice try though

You can watch Hulu and Netflix and iTunes on your iPad, but Android devices have none of those. You can play more free iOS games than Android devices can run Flash games. So there is always a trade-off. If you want Flash more than Hulu and Netflix and iTunes and iOS games, then sell your iPad and get a XOOM for only a few hundred dollars more. Or if you want a PC, get a PC. Very straightforward choice.

The iPhone FOUR years ago. 2007. Not the iPhone 4.

I agree. Having Flash on my Xoom is fantastic. While I understand not having Flash on a phone, not having it on a tablet is absurd. I can’t go back to the iPad until it either gets Flash or Flash dies (Probably the latter in a few years).

“can’t go back to the iPad until it either gets Flash or Flash dies (Probably the latter in a few years).”

read: I like ‘content’ but could care less about flash as a technology. That is about 99.9999% of the consumer market place. (sort of like Ogg Vorbis…. my 70 year old mother loves her iPod, and doesn’t care if it’s MP3, AAC, or two small prehistoric worms making sound effects in each earbud (ala the Flintstones).

I give flash an over under of 2 years. 2013 will flip off of flash. Content Owners will start to figure out that ‘rich applications’ will just need to be coded either in Dalvik or ObjC, to be efficient and stable. Flash will either be efficient and unstable (due to the 100′s of platforms it will run on), or inefficient and stable (written without hardware acceleratoin on each platform.

That’s the beauty of ‘open.’ Have all content written to a spec, and have the HW vendors be responsible for coding a player for it. Yes, Apple plays better in the open arena.

OK so here is how 2e all know you don’t have a clue. You make a statement saying very few people are running flash on android devices. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Almost two months ago the number of android devices able to run flash was over 60%. With more hand sets upgraded to 2.2 since then its getting closer to 70. You sure do try to talk the big game, better luck next time.

Read his post again. Able to != actually are running it.