One of the biggest features which has been lacking on some Apple devices which has been driving plenty of users insane for a long time now has been Adobe Flash support. Of course, people are finding ways around this with jailbreaking and other hacking methods, but not everyone is exactly a fan of doing this. It seems luckily tensions between Apple and Adobe are getting loosened a bit, as Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that the company are currently working on MacBook Air compatible version of flash.
Last month, Apple’s most recent MacBook Air came to the shelves, and surprisingly the device did not already have flash on it, and to top it off installing flash onto the device cut the battery life by around 2 hours.
Narayen announced the MacBook Air compatible flash version to audiences of the Web 2.0 conference in San Fransisco and said that the beta testing of the software is already in development. Just to let us all know that Apple and Abode aren’t necessarily on buddy terms yet, Narayen added at the conference that past problems with Apple have been Apple’s own fault by preventing early access to hardware acceleration.
Still, it’s all baby steps in the end. Maybe this in-development process will bring the two companies at least a little closer and co-operate more for the sake off their users.
Via: T3
2 thoughts on “Adobe Flash Version Compatible For MacBook Air Being Worked On”
Just being a geek here guys but I never heard of Abode Flash do you mean Adobe by any chance?
I’m still in two minds whether to put flash on my Air. The biggest causes of hot computers and regular crashing browsers I can lay at Flash’s door. I don’t put all the blame with Adobe, part of the problem is sloppy coding on the part of website creation teams. I did a non-scientific test on a Win 7 notebook and removing flash appeared to help battery life and kept the machine running cooler when web browsing.
What will I miss? Adverts. No big deal.
Certain websites make extensive use of flash so they’d be a no go. However, having an ipad has shown that for the sort of sites I use no flash is not a big deal.
So that leads me back to my previous dilema!