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Flash got something of a boost from YouTube this week as a blog post by an engineer on the team detailed all the things that HTML5 doesn’t do that Flash does.

Yay, for Flash! Flash wins the week, right?

Eh, not so much. Turns out the porn industry has seen the writing on men’s room wall. And, in addition to that, they’ve realized that Flash’s days are numbered. Ari Joone, the director of Digital Playground, one of the big porn producers, said:

Mobile browsers run HTML 5 very well. Flash brings everything to a crawl and has an impact on battery life. With HTML 5, there is no reason to show our content in Flash.

Adobe’s running around trying to stimulate the suddenly flaccid support for Flash, but these aren’t the kind of people that Adobe’s going to excite.

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Reposted from cypher

“ What keeps nearly every Android device and OS release from being truly great are deep-rooted issues that have no apparent solution for the foreseeable future. The device manufacturers aren’t very good at software, yet they keep writing their own. The OS has no consistent hardware platform to target. The manufacturers produce devices with inconsistent build quality (the Droid’s battery door, the Nexus One’s button misalignment) and lots of why-is-this-here moments (the Droid’s keyboard, the Nexus One’s trackball). The current must-have Android phone changes every few months, and they’re often radically different from each other, making it difficult for consumers, developers, the press, and the carriers to build loyalty toward any of them or entrench them in the market. The OS needs to be updated over the air with three involved parties, only one of whom is motivated to update it. Features are added when they can be, not when (or if) they should be, or if they can be done well. Nearly every usability detail appears to be an afterthought, as if “design” is relegated to a coat of paint at the end of the development cycle rather than a deep-rooted philosophy throughout it. ”

Reposted from cypher