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Sony Aims for Vita Flash Support |
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The brawl between Flash and mobile developers has flashed hot over the last few years, with Adobe recently announcing it would discontinue mobile development to focus on HTML-5 solutions instead. The announcement seemed like a victory for Apple, which for years has resisted bringing Flash applications to its phones and tablets. Flash is still a major part of most people’s web experience, and the software enables thousands of internet users to watch videos and engage interactive content.
Sony seems to disagree with Apple on the subject of Flash’s usefulness, and is currently in negotiations with Adobe to bring the service to the PlayStation Vita. On the one hand, it’s a savvy business move that ensures Vita owners will have access to as much online content as possible. On the other, Adobe’s recent shift in focus to HTML-5 hints that Sony’s push for Flash support may have only been savvy if executed five years ago.
Sony execs have confirmed that they’re still working with Adobe to try to find a solution that will work for both companies, but the tone of the interview doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. Muneki Shimada, development head of Sony’s division two, indicated that negotiations are ongoing and Sony hasn’t “given up.” Something could be lost in translation here, but it certainly sounds like Sony is dealing with an intransigent group of Adobe developers reluctant to develop their software on another device.
Either way, the future of Flash on both the Vita and on mobile platforms is in doubt. If negotiations are successful, however, Vita would earn one more selling point to help put it ahead of its competitors.
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on psp the flash feature was almost useless due to the ram that was using this feature (it still cause problems in the ps3 browser)
and adobe wasnt able to implement hardware acceleration of flash11 on mobile device (it still use software and it is still slow and heavy).
when it work,it is nice but for the moment flash mobile has to mutch failures rate to be reliable.
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The real questions is are they going to provide a fully functional web browser with the Vita or another gimped browser with very limited browsing capability again. Flash is useless if the web browser sucks.
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I hate ads and now we will have the 5' screen full of them.
Hope Firefox + Adblock can now be developed for vita.
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beat me to it, the next iteration of android is even dropping flash for HTML5.
sony seem to be going backwards, they should be clamouring for HTML5 as well
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sorry i can't remember the source.
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HTML-5 will NOT kill flash, trust me, I should know, I code both.
HTML-5s "Flash killer", the video tags are a mess, and require the correct codecs to be downloaded. Flash does not.
Flash also has 98% machine penetration rate, whereas theres only a few browsers that fully support HTML 5.
Also note that HTML-5 is only becoming standard in 10 years.
Flash is only shit if its made by bad devs who put more effort into animation than optimization.
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Don't blame flash for ads, ads will be all over the internet, whether it is in Flash or HTML5...
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/11/09/adobes-flash-surrender-proves-steve-jobs-and-apple-were-right-all-along-with-html5/
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Good luck with that one Sony!!!
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Therefore, use your brain and you'll quickly see that DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT for something that that has ZERO SUPPORT will be rather low.
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