Not exactly. Adobe put a link on the page that clicking "you don't have the latest flash plugin, click here to download" brought you to that told click on said link if they wanted flash on their iphone/ipod touch.
If the number were for the number of times mobile safari went to "flash" sites, the number would be significantly higher. Put even more clearly, the NYtimes homepage probably received more than 7 million hits from iDevices in December. Each one of those would have been a ping for flash, and the list goes on and on.
@Saauron If you think the number is high now, just wait till those iPads start hitting the streets. I predict that the sales of iPads and in increase in requests will be pretty well correlated.
I'm not taking sides on this -- I have flash disabled in my browsers because it's 95% ads, but I'd like to have flash as an option on my iPhone. God knows whose fault it is, though since Jobs is stubborn as hell I'm perfectly willing to believe it's his fault.
HOWEVER, it strikes me as amusing that Adobe is *bragging* about how many people are unable to use their product.
They aren't bragging about it - they are trying to show Apple that the policy is bad on their part.
Anyway,I don't get the apple apologists here who say things like nobody needs flash, or it's crap, and html 5 will kill it. None of that is the point. The issue is that when I go to a website, like dodge's or millions of others, and want to read them and am stopped cause of no flash plug in - that makes me want to thrown my iphone at the wall. They are preventing me from using the whole internet. It's annoying no matter how much you need to kiss their ass. (This is directed in general, not towards the above comment I replied to.)
@Wesscoast 75 million iPhones and iPod Touches? No fucking way.
The only way you can reach that number is if you're counting every iPod, some of which are unable to connect to the internet at all, making it impossible to request Flash.
The whole line-up consists of the $60 Amps in-ears and $100 Tracks on-ear headphones, which both also come in slightly souped-up and pricier HD variations at $100 and $130, respectively.
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Huh? Anyone know where you can make these supposed requests?
Or are they talking about direct views to the get flash page from iPhones? Those are two entirely different things.
@Nerdtalker
its the second.
and there's 75 million iDevice owners...
so 1 tenth of all owners hit flash sites ONCE, in a month.
yawn.
@Wesscoast
Not exactly. Adobe put a link on the page that clicking "you don't have the latest flash plugin, click here to download" brought you to that told click on said link if they wanted flash on their iphone/ipod touch.
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/03/adobe-points-finger-at-apple-over-flash-for-iphone/
If the number were for the number of times mobile safari went to "flash" sites, the number would be significantly higher. Put even more clearly, the NYtimes homepage probably received more than 7 million hits from iDevices in December. Each one of those would have been a ping for flash, and the list goes on and on.
@Saauron If you think the number is high now, just wait till those iPads start hitting the streets. I predict that the sales of iPads and in increase in requests will be pretty well correlated.
@Nerdtalker
I'm not taking sides on this -- I have flash disabled in my browsers because it's 95% ads, but I'd like to have flash as an option on my iPhone. God knows whose fault it is, though since Jobs is stubborn as hell I'm perfectly willing to believe it's his fault.
HOWEVER, it strikes me as amusing that Adobe is *bragging* about how many people are unable to use their product.
@Nerdtalker
They aren't bragging about it - they are trying to show Apple that the policy is bad on their part.
Anyway,I don't get the apple apologists here who say things like nobody needs flash, or it's crap, and html 5 will kill it. None of that is the point. The issue is that when I go to a website, like dodge's or millions of others, and want to read them and am stopped cause of no flash plug in - that makes me want to thrown my iphone at the wall. They are preventing me from using the whole internet. It's annoying no matter how much you need to kiss their ass. (This is directed in general, not towards the above comment I replied to.)
@Wesscoast 75 million iPhones and iPod Touches? No fucking way.
The only way you can reach that number is if you're counting every iPod, some of which are unable to connect to the internet at all, making it impossible to request Flash.