Sorry, I thought we were talking about LED camera flash, not Adobe Flash.
There are some jailbreak ways to acheive flash, by using a pre-rendering web browser (Look up Skyfire, I don't think it's for iPhone though). But the fact that Jobs wont even consider Flash because HTML5 is going to rule the internet soon, is just ridiculous. 50% of current websites use some sort of flash. It's just on a long list of Apple bullshit that is just stupid.
- Developers have to use their SDK, and use their coding language (Objective C) if they want to have their app in the app store.
- Obviously the dictatorship over the app store.
- The fact that they want to control 100% of what is on your device
- The whole Flash-HTML5 conflict
- and the list goes on
Apple is honestly just a terrible company, but they make revolutionary products.
I can honestly say, I do not want flash on my iPhone. Flash player is one of the buggiest pieces of software I have ever used. I also really don't see the point in having flash on my phone, I mean, what 80% of flash content are ads anyways? and why would I want to see ads on my phone? Another large chunk of flash content are flash based games, and really who needs those with a whole store full of games that are of much higher quality.
The only real reason I can think of to have flash on a phone is to play videos, and lots of video sites are making html versions now anyways.
also,
[YOUTUBE]PtGCaKyd_co[/YOUTUBE]
skip to about 4 minutes. While, yes, it is still in beta, it really does slow down the browser, and it still has a long ways to go to even be worthwhile to use.
I also don't see a problem with the dictatorship over the appstore,
29 applications were found to request the exact same permissions as applications that are known to be spyware and have been categorized and detected as such by SMobile's solution. A full eight applications explicitly request a specific permission that would allow the device to brick itself, or render it absolutely unusable. 383 applications were found to have the ability to read or use the authentication credentials from another service or application. Finally, 3% of all of the Market submissions that have been analyzed could allow an application to send unknown premium SMS messages without the user's interaction or authorization.
^Talking about the Android marketplace. While yes, you'd probably have to be pretty stupid to download one of these apps, however people are stupid.
Besides, jailbreaking takes like what, 2 seconds?