One of the things that iOS still gets the most flack for is that Flash doesn’t run on the platform — and it does on Android. Yet reviews of Flash on Android are…mixed at best. During the All Things D conference, Walt Mossberg took time in his interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to lay out some verbal smackdown. You can watch the video above (ironically Flash encoded, or watch it here). For those who don’t want to sit through the vid, here’s the relevant transcript, via Cult of Mac:
Mossberg: What’s the deal between you and Steve Jobs? He was here last year, and he had a chance to expand on what he had previously written about [Flash], and summarized, he said “Well, I think our duty is to pick technologies in the ascendancy. We feel like Flash is not on the ascendency, we think HTML 5 is, so that’s who we decided to go with for iOS Devices. What’s your respons eto that?
Narayen: There are a lot of misperceptions out there. When it first broke, people talked about the fact that they thought it was a technology issue, and I think it’s become fairly clear over the last year that it’s not about the technology: it’s about a business model issue. It’s about control of a platform. It’s the control of the app store that’s really at issue here. The value proposition Flash has is that we allow people to author programs once and get them to as many devices as possible. We’ve done that with Android. We will have 130 million phone devices that will have Flash on them by the end of the year…
Mossberg: And I have yet to test a single one where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices.
Oh, snap!
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