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Steve Jobs: Flash - old technology, which will soon withdraw from the market

Friday, February 19, 2010

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs during a presentation before iPad tablet publishers spoke disapprovingly about technologies Adobe Flash. According to him, it is outdated and must be replaced by a more acceptable alternative. Jobs noted that Apple has already abandoned a number of outdated technologies, including FireWire 400 ports, floppy and CD drives, displays nesvetodiodnoy lighting and so on. The same fate awaits Adobe Flash, says the head of Apple.



Weaknesses Flash Steve Jobs said security risks, too much consumption of CPU and battery. For example, the battery life iPad from one charge when using this multimedia technologies will decrease from 10 to 1.5 hours. Moreover, Jobs even suggested that journalists from the Wall Street Journal convert Flash material on the website edition in HTML5, and video using H.264. He considers it a matter of normal. By the way, such a proposal has already responded to the New York Times, where he developed a special version of the Times Reader for the iPad, without Flash content.

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