No Flash on the iPad/iPhone is a feature, not a bug! None of those flash games are touch-able and optimized for such an interface… I don’t play Farmville but I’ve seen kids around the house playing it and it’s already incredibly slow and imprecise enough with a mouse pointer, let alone on a touch interface. I’m going to try to keep thinking that Zynga isn’t developing Farmville for the iPhone/iPad because they don’t think it’s worth it, not because Adobe is interested in that or funding them in any way… right?
As to video, there are other great alternatives out there, and it’s a matter of developers building them.
Bottom line is: if those companies really want to tap into the iPhone/iPad market, they can make better apps if they develop them to run natively on those devices. Besides, even a Windows user, having the choice between a free Flash game or a free native game, he’ll choose the latter. The only reason they keep playing Flash games is because of sites like Miniclip.com, that congregate the games in one center place. With the AppStore, there’s no reason/need for that.
Regardless of the value of Flash (which I don’t see anywhere), you have to admit that Flash is becoming less and less relevant. And Adobe/Flash Team/Developers are scared and afraid to adapt to a new ball game. I wish the Flash Team developers all the best, professionally, I really do but… maybe it’s time to start investing on some more interesting and relevant products.
— This was my comment to a post on the Flash Team blog, that is moderated and I don’t know if it will get posted… ever! :)
