Great article about how bad Flash sucks on mobile devices (Chen and Issac are careful not to single out the Playbook, even though the article is about that device). I love this quote:
Even though Adobe touts the plug-in as a “write once, run anywhere” runtime environment, the story right now is more precisely, “write once, work sometimes, on some devices.”
And here is some great spin from Adobe:
There’s a pretty complex hardware and software stack here,” explained Danny Winokur, vice president of Adobe’s Flash runtime software division. “It starts with the silicon and goes all the way down to drivers and the OS. Issues at any layer in that stack can be exposed when any piece of content comes into play and affect the stability that users are having.
Good job, Danny! If you talk way over people’s heads they will just nod and accept what you said as cogent, even if it is total white wash.
RIM has been banking on Flash as the killer app that can challenge the iPad. And they have been working on it for two years. And it still sucks.
