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I have an Apple Ipad but I can't watch the Live stream from Alli Sports webpage. Anybody know where else I can get the feed from?
Are web designers going away from using flash or adobe for web design? This is why: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2008/11/adobe-flash-on/
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For the record no phone is supporting video flash at this point. You can jailbreak the ipad and get flash for it but, it doesnt do video flash.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
Welcome to Steve Jobs world. Hook, line and sinker. Sucks to be you with no flash. And HTML5 is too far away from being adopted either. You think Jobs is going to allow HTML5 in Safari? I doubt it.
And Win7 Phone will be supporting flash for sure.
It;s crammed into Android devices as a competitive feature regardless of how well it works. Apple is saying there has to be a better solution and we're not compromising what we're trying to create with our devices to settle for less.
Those are business decisions which provide consumer choice, not morality plays.
I haven't seen one android phone running flash and streaming content like we are talking about. All the phones running ad based flash content are slow, crash a lot more and have huge battery drain problems. I could be wrong, but I am yet to see any Android or Windows 7 phone run streaming flash.
On the HTML5 statement, it is already allowed in safari.... Plus most of the videos from facebook and websites run via HTML5.
Funny you bring up windows, when they sided with Jobs saying flash and smartphones don't mix well together...
Keep drinking your apple hating cool aide!!!!
http://www.apple.com/html5/
Pit Row
A mac running the same hardware as a PC performs tenfold worse...Have you ever tried playing games on that mac? Steam supports macs with their source engine, but it runs like crap on them.
Funny enough, you can thank the google coders for the ipad hack to run flash. Hook, line, and sinker apple people are....
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/apple-ipad-flash-courtesy-android-07050904/
How long does it take to start that pile? How many times a day does it crash?
A windows phone running flash? That's a dreamteam right there....
I really dont understand why people have all these problems with PCs.
Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops
This computer rivalry has been elevated to a cultural divide on par with Pepsi versus Coke. Taking it beyond personal taste, PM crunches the numbers—with some surprising results (and detailed benchmark scores).
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December 18, 2009 3:15 AM
We all know the stereotypes. Apple's popular commercials have painted the picture in stark terms: There are two types of people, Mac people and PC people. And if the marketing is to be believed, the former is a hip, sport-coat-and-sneakers-wearing type of guy who uses his computer for video chatting, music mash-ups and other cool, creative pursuits that starchy, business-suited PC users could never really appreciate unless they tried them on the slick Apple interface. Then again, Windows PC enthusiasts probably think that Mac guy is a smug slacker with an overpriced toy that can't do any serious computing anyway. Funny thing is, both stereotypes are wrong. With a 7.5 percent market share, Macs are no longer just the computer choice of artists and unemployed writers. (Apple is, in fact, the fourth largest computer manufacturer in the world.) And now, more than ever, the guts of both platforms are remarkably similar. Both types of machines use Intel processors (although some PCs can be configured with processors from AMD). Both buy memory, hard drives and graphics cards from the same small pool of suppliers. The underlying operating systems have distinctly different flavors, but in terms of functionality, Microsoft Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard have surprisingly similar built-in multimedia, Internet and productivity applications.
Yet what makes the platforms feel so dissimilar is their approaches to these applications. Internet Explorer versus Safari, Windows Media Center versus Front Row, Photo Gallery versus iPhoto, Backup and Restore Center versus Time Machine—these system components from Microsoft and Apple are designed to accomplish essentially the same goals. To users, however, the position and movement of the virtual knobs and levers make all the difference.
These things are largely matters of preference and style, but you can still make a reasonable attempt to quantify them, and we did. We tested two all-in-one desktops and two laptops—one Mac and one PC per category—and assembled a panel of testers with a range of experience and preference that ran the gamut from expert users to my wife's stepfather, who, by his own account, had never actually turned on a computer. Our testers were asked to set up the computers right out of the box and explore the machines through everyday tasks such as Web surfing, document creation, uploading photos, downloading Adobe Acrobat files and playing music and movies through Media Center and Front Row (the entertainment software suites integrated into Vista and Leopard, respectively). Our testers were instructed to divorce themselves as much as possible from their previous technological preferences and rate their experiences with each computer's software and hardware.
Usability surveys are like taste tests—a useful look at the subjective appeal of a device. (Is it fun? Is it easy? Would I be happy to live with this thing?) But beneath their packaging, computers are data-crunching machines that can be run like racehorses. So the second component of our test regimen was about pure performance.
Our computers were closely matched, but in the interest of full disclosure, we'll spit out the caveats: The Gateway One PC had a processor that runs 400 MHz slower than its iMac competitor (not a heck of a difference in this age of dual-core chips), but it also had two extra gigabytes of DDR2 memory. In the laptop category, our Asus M51 had a 2.2 GHz processor, compared to 2.4 GHz for our MacBook. But the Asus had a larger screen, a more sophisticated graphics card and an extra gig of RAM.
All that extra RAM may seem to give an advantage to the PCs. Vista, however, is a noted memory hog, so throwing more RAM into PC computers is probably less of a performance booster for manufacturers than it is a new baseline hardware specification.
Before we pulled out our stopwatches, we turned to two industry-standard, cross-platform benchmarking tools—Geekbench from Primate Labs and Cinebench from Maxon—to get third-party results. We ran both benchmarking programs on our Mac and PC desktop and laptop computers before our testers got their dirty little hands on the equipment to ensure that no confounding software could poison the results.
These benchmarks are reliable indicators of performance, but the numbers feel somewhat meaningless to ordinary users. Which is why we created our own suite of tests to measure the speed of everyday tasks. We logged boot-up and shutdown times, and launch times for the Internet browser and media player built into each operating system, as well as for common applications such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop. We tested how long it took for each computer to rip a CD and install a few big software suites. The laptops were forced to play the longest movie we could find (Saving Private Ryan—2 hours, 49 minutes) until they wheezed, sputtered and shut down. Finally, we put all four computers through a stress test. We ran three video sources (a YouTube clip, a DVD and an .avi file), DivX encoding, instant messaging, Word, Adobe Acrobat and a spyware scan simultaneously—then retimed our launch of Photoshop.
The results gave us a clear winner in the performance categories, but the big surprise was how little difference we found in user preferences. Turns out, both platforms are capable and easy to use, but only one was the victor.
iMac | $1499
iMac 20in running iMovie
SPECS
Hardware 20-in. screen, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 320 GB hard drive, built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, 8x CD/DVD burner, remote control, ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card.
Software OS X Leopard, iLife '08 (iTunes, iPhoto, GarageBand, etc.), Front Row, iWork (30-day trial).
USER RATING
Design TKTKTK
Ergonomics TKTKTK
Internet surfing TKTKTK
Digital photo management TKTKTK
iWork TKTKTK
Front Row (movies, music, etc.) TKTKTK
Overall TKTKTK
SPEED TEST | Click here for detailed benchmark scores
Boot Average startup 28.7 sec.
Average shutdown 4.0 sec.
Install Microsoft Office 4 min. 17 sec.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 31 min. 44 sec.
Program Launch Safari (Internet browser) 3.3 sec.
Microsoft Word 4.2 sec.
Adobe Photoshop 4.0 sec.
Stress-launch Photoshop (w/ 8 apps running) 21.36 sec.
CD rip 3 min. 35 sec.
Gateway One | $1800
Gateway One
SPECS
Hardware 19-in. screen, 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 3 GB DDR2 RAM, 500 GB hard drive, built-in Wi-Fi, 8x CD/DVD burner, remote control, ATI Radeon HD 2600 graphics card.
Software Windows Vista Home Premium, Microsoft Works 8.5, Media Center, Microsoft Office (60-day trial).
USER RATING
Design TKTKTK
Ergonomics TKTKTK
Internet surfing TKTKTK
Digital photo management TKTKTK
Works TKTKTK
Media Center (movies, music, etc.) TKTKTK
Overall TKTKTK
SPEED TEST | Click here for detailed benchmark scores
Boot Average startup 1 min. 13 sec.
Average shutdown 44.3 sec.
Install Microsoft Office 6 min. 25 sec.
Adobe Creative Suite 3 25 min. 45 sec.
Program Launch Internet Explorer 6.3 sec.
Microsoft Word 5.2 sec.
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 sec.
Stress-launch Photoshop (w/ 8 apps running) 40.0 sec.
CD rip 3 min. 35 sec.
Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/tests/4258725?page=4…
Hey wood, wheres that "10 fold worse"running the same hardware...actually it's not even the same-- the mac has 2 fewer gigs of ram and only .4 processor speed and it still laid the WOOD down.
Just another "computer expert" talking out of his ass, "10 fold worse" hah.. I guess when you know you're wrong it's time to just make shit up.
Out of all that, this is what makes a Mac worth it's money....
Boot Average startup 28.7 sec.
Average shutdown 4.0 sec.
Windows
Boot Average startup 1 min. 13 sec.
Average shutdown 44.3 sec.
There's nothing worse than waiting over twice as long to reboot your computer for the 20th time, and 10 times longer to shut it down. Windows is junk, you don't have to be an Apple user to realize that.
Keep flash off the iPad and IPhone, websites like Alli need to start streaming in HTML5 so we can get away from flash garbage forever. That will be the only way it dies is if another "open" platform comes in and puts that garbage out of it's misery.
Isn't the archive from unadilla on YouTube by now?
If it is I should be able to watch it on the iPad.
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