No iPhone Flash
Most iPhone users have noticed the lack of a Flash player in the web browser. This limits the number of sites available for viewing, and limits any videos to the unbelievably awful YouTube. There has been a rumor going around that Adobe was hard at work creating a Flash app for the phone, but apparently this weakens Uncle Steve’s death grip on our iWallets. Apples terms-of-service agreement prohibits the Flash player from appearing on the iPhone.
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P.S. Since 1927, moving pictures have been synced with sound. Over eighty years later, a video without sound is an anomaly. The term “multimedia content” was invented by a marketing department that wanted to aggrandize their latest generation of computers that could finally play videos. They couldn’t just say, “Plays DVDs,” or, “Plays web cartoons.” No, it’s a marketing department; they had to say, “Fully supports multimedia content!”
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