With all this furore about the iPad not having Flash, I thought I’d share this screenshot. Yes Adobe, I would have begrudgingly installed your Flash drug in the past because I felt as though I "needed" it, but having been forced to give it up when I moved most of my machines to FreeBSD (which you don’t support) I was forced to get clean and as a consequence I no longer use it even on platforms you do support!
Friends, don’t let friends use Flash.
Of all the criticisms of the iPad that have been thrown around since it’s launch barely a few days ago, the loudest seems to be the lack of Flash support. I’m going to get into trouble with a lot of people for saying this, but I consider it a feature, and on par with Google ditching support for Internet Explorer 6 on some of their sites.
While reading a fascinating interview with senior contributors about the improvements in FreeBSD 7.0 at the OnLamp BSD Dev Centre, I couldn’t help but notice a certain problem with the page:
Can you see it? I’ll give you a hint: it starts with an "A" and ends in a "dobe"! Yes, Adobe is advertising their Flex framework, on a website dedicated to an operating system they refuse to support!
Just for more fun, if you click on their advertisement on your trustworthy FreeBSD box as I did, you’re told you need to download Adobe Flash. Clicking on that link takes you to a page where they tell you that "We are unable to locate a Web player that matches your platform and browser".
Little hint Adobe, don’t advertise your products to people who can’t use them, even if they wanted to.
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