Re: FLASH: flash play differences between win and mac

[Mats Persson]

London,  Wednesday, May 3, 2000, at 7:02 am



Matt,


On one level I'm surprised to hear this, as the G4 processor IS much much

more powerful than the PII, so the there should be no comparison between

them really.


OK, granted, the Mac OS 9 is NOT the world's best OS and has a lot more to

be asked for in terms of speed and stability. (This is not a gripe at Apple,

it's just my opinion) Look out for Mac OS X


On a Second level, this raises an important question that is NOT addressed

by all these wonderful software developers - like Macromedia, and which

irritates the hell out of me.


Because of M$ monopoly position in the OS market too many software

developers build their apps on Windows and then do the minimum to port them

over to the Mac OS, often resulting in slow buggy pieces of crap apps (do I

dare to say Dreamweaver 2 !!??) that reinforces the myth of Windows being

faster and better than the Mac OS. (All part of M$'s big plan, and devoutly

followed by too many independent developers)


SURELY, it must be in the interest of any developer to produce a good

quality app that is truly platform independent and can be easily ported to

all OS (Win, Mac OS (X), Linux, Be, etc ) platforms !?? JAVA anyone ??


My question to JD and all Macromedia guys is:


1. Is Flash 4/5 just simple Mac ports of Win apps ???


2. Is this issue something you guys discuss and are concerned with ??



I'm sorry if anyone feel that this posting is approaching the "Mac Fanatics

United" standard spiels. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO !!


I simply just get really angry (insert less diplomatic word) when I as a

customer get supplied a second rate product just because of my choice of

computing platform !!!


When I have to pay the same (and often more) amount of money for a lower

quality product something is FUNDAMENTALLY WRONG !!


Is there anyone in this whole world (apart from Bill & Balmer) who is

capable of disagreeing with the above statement ??



Regards,


Mats

matsimediatec [dot] co [dot] uk

>

From: "Matt Perkins" <hfazevnet [dot] net>

> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 21:09:19 -0400

> Subject: FLASH: flash play differences between win and mac

> 

> i've got a flash movie that i just made at school on a mac (a 300mzh g4 and

> a 233mhz beige g3). i've got a pentium pro 200 that is over 3 years old at

> home. this movie run  WHOLE WHOLE WHOLE lot faster at home on my older

> computer.

> the file really isn't that complex, and this happens to all of the stuff in

> my lab as well. the macs are running os9 and my pc is running win2000.

> wtf is up with that? is flash for mac just that bad compared? i know that a

> lot of people do flash development on pc's but should a g4 300 which

> (according to all of the baised marketing hype) can crush a fast pentium 2?

> 

> this is insane.

> ::: Matt Perkins




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