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Comment by Frazzydee | Hacker News Reader

They better not screw this up. Adobe has had a lot of bad press lately as their exclusion from the iPad has unearthed lingering annoyances.

If this makes android devices sluggish or causes crashes, it will lend credence to Apple's decision, and old complaints once again get rehashed.

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I noticed that while the Southpark app was displayed quite a bit, we didn't get to see almost any interaction with the Twitter app. Might be because it's unflattering, might not.

I'm sure we'll find out eventually. Given that Adobe has failed to produce a performant flash plugin for far more powerful devices (and won't even acknowledge that the plugin is buggy), I remain skeptical.

I was noticing that too, like how it was apparently stuck in horizontal format, and the massive stutter when it scrolled down to text input. The video example at the end was amusing to me too, as it appeared both applications simply froze part way in.

I'm more interested to see if Android users are willing to deal with the crashes and slowness for the convenience of having Flash.

Mac users deal with it because they have to, but Apple decided otherwise for the iPhone.

> Mac users deal with it because they have to

Actually it's their choice to have it installed or not.

Really? I don't recall ever having installed flash on any of my Macs in the last couple of years. It was already there, crashyness and all. That's why click2flash exists.

Flash comes preinstalled on OSX.

Of course, the root of the problem could just as much be Apple and not Adobe.

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