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Hello,
While I am familiar with flash cards, SD cards, CF cards, I am not sure I understand what "Flash" is (the thing that Apple Steve Jobs insisted that they would not use on their products, a war with Adobe or something), and what it does on the Droid X? Does this have to do with browser loading the web pages? Can someone explain?
Thanks,
Debra
Your close. It's what allows you to view videos in your browser. It gives it the animation or movement to the video. Without flash, you would not be able to see a video. Apple, on the other hand uses the Apple version of Flash.
If you've ever been browsing the web online with a new computer or browser and you get the message on a webpage that says that you "have to install Adobe Flash" - that's what people are talking about. Like what was said above, there are a lot of sites that use it for online videos and games. Steve Jobs considers it dead technology that won't be around for long - so he refuses to put it on Apple (mobile) devices. He also claims that it is really buggy and will make all his products buggy.
To add 1 more piece to this, actually the ADOBE FLASH part is generated as a .SWF file. These FLASH features and videos are inserted and used on web pages all over the place. Not ALL videos are FLASH though (.swf) hence iPhone & iPad users actually can view some, but not all, videos .. but never a FLASH-created web site. (Unless there is some new APP allowing them to do so.)
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