Porn Industry Opts not to Flash, Backs HTML5 Instead
Porn Industry Opts not to Flash, Backs HTML5 Instead
Posted 06/29/2010 at 7:49am
| by Paul Lilly
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Steve Jobs, the proprietary pimp who refuses to back Adobe's Flash platform, isn't alone in his decision to get wholeheartedly behind HTML5. Joining him is Digital Playground, one of the major players in the adult film industry, which announced plans to kick Flash to the curb and get into bed with HTML5 as soon as desktop browsers fully sport the spec.
"We are waiting for browsers to catch up. As soon as they are ready, we will move everything to HTML5," said Ali Joone, founder and director of Digital Playground. While grateful for what Flash has delivered up to this point, Joone added that it was "just a matter of time" until Flash got pushed aside. "It's the next passing of the torch."
This latest development isn't without significant ironic undertones. Just over two months ago, Steve Jobs said that Apple has a "moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone." The way it's shaping up, however, it looks like folks who want porn will be able to get it on their iPad, too.
Should Adobe acknowledge the announcement, we fully suspect the software vendor to downplay the situation, but this could turn out to be a huge development. Let's not forget that despite HD-DVD winning over consumer support with lower-priced hardware, Blu-ray ended up winning the high-definition format war, a victory that in large part was won because of the backing of the adult film industry.
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July 03, 2010 at 6:29am
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LueZuve
July 01, 2010 at 1:18pm
Porn actually backed HD-DVD first before they realized it was a losing cause. In fact Digital Playground, the company mentioned in this post, came out in favor of HD-DVD vs. blu-ray originally:
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/01/8602.ars
and
http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/30728-ces-2007-hd-dvd-versus-blu-ray-the-porn-industry-says-hd-dvd
Sphnz
June 30, 2010 at 10:21am
FYI; The global porn industry is the worlds largest single user of DVD's and sex on the web are Googles most searched queries. Also the porn industry backed VHS video over Betamax, Blur Ray DVD over HD and now HTML5 over Flash. Globally the porn industry makes and spends vast amounts of money, and where they choose to spend it can make-or-break a product and change the way we all view media. …Nor will any company ever admit to its shareholders or to those bible bashing americans that their product's success or failure had anything to do with porn.
nHeroGo
June 29, 2010 at 6:12pm
...on my porn surfing; did not know pornography and flash had such an intimate relationship that Adobe's survival is depending on that particular industry. I should do some first hand research while my wife is away ;)
Also, reverand Jobs must have a huge stash on his iMac. Usually, preachers against homosexuallity and drugs are preaching their hatered to hide their gay acid porn addiction. Had Jobs never tossed dirt on Adobe and Android regarding pornography, I would never had thought he would falsly claim the high ground.
Slugbait
June 30, 2010 at 1:30pm
While doing your research, will your second hand know what your first hand is doing?
huhhuh
June 29, 2010 at 2:53pm
cant wait for redtube.com to be available on my ipodtouch when i go to bed.
stoneyguy
June 29, 2010 at 12:16pm
The death of HD-DVD came more from Disney choosing Blu-ray than the Porn industry.
PawBear
June 29, 2010 at 11:27am
I'm for dropping all proprietary restrictions on computing. My experience is that they create headaches and a half.
"Either we conform the Truth to our desires or we conform our desires to the Truth."
naxself
June 29, 2010 at 10:09am
Porn, like life, finds a way. It will evolve until it gets on your Iphone and Ipad, Mr. Jobs. "Jurassic Park" warned you of this 20 yers ago.
Slugbait
June 29, 2010 at 10:06am
It was WalMart. Once they ditched HD-DVD from their shelves, EVERYONE formally announced they were bailing on HD-DVD within the next ten days, not just studios.
Compared to WalMart, the porn industry has zero influence on market.
K0BALT
June 29, 2010 at 10:05am
One of the first things I did with my HTC was check the mobile porn quality. Superb! :P
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cigar3tte
June 29, 2010 at 9:07am
I think the HD media war was settled by studio backings, not porn.
"Ass so fat that you can see it from the front" -- Mos Def
I Jedi
June 29, 2010 at 8:56am
In relation to this article, in that Steve Jobs doesn't want porn on the iPhone, there is one thing I cannot possibly fathom. According to Steve Jobs, the Apple platform is a revolution in of itself. It is never quite understood what Steve Jobs means by "revolution", but from what we have seen in the past, it means a revolution from anything that Steve Jobs himself does not like. For example, Flash, porn, user ability to choose their own applications, an open-platform, and the list goes on. My point is that I do not understand why masses of people rally behind Steve Jobs in support of him and his vision? Having Flash as an option should be a right of the end-consumer, not of Apple itself.
All tech companies are there to provide a service to the customer. The customer, being all of us, should have the full-potential that we can possibly achieve from a platform, such as OSX, Linux, and Windows.With that said, Apple has no reason, other than what Steve Jobs says, to deny its customer-base Flash support. Flash is still a very important aspect of the World Wide Web, and will continue to be an important part for many years to come. If Apple is truly commited to a revolution, it should be one in which the customer can fully expand their wings, and take the platform to new heights.
DJSPIN80
June 29, 2010 at 9:48am
Jobs never said you can't have porn on the iPhone, he's keeping the App Store G-Rated for all intents and purposes, thus he's limiting adult content. For me, that's fine, I don't care if he doesn't allow adult content in the App Store. It's not a matter of revolution, it's a matter of marketing. He wants to sell it to youngsters, and with a G-Rated content rating it makes it easy to sell to parents for their kids to have iPhones or iPod touches.
Jobs never said ANYTHING about filtering content from ever reaching the iPhone. Your analogies don't match; what does 'revolution' have to do with anything you just said? He disagrees with Flash, so what? Flash is NOT an important part of the web. The most important game changer on the web were scripting languages. Why? Because they were standardized and could output HTML. Flash maybe available on everything including the kitchen sink, but that doesn't make it a standard. For all intents and purposes, I'm glad that both Apple and much of the industry (adult rated or not) has the backing for HTML5. I'm personally fed up of Flash and its crappy framework.
I Jedi
June 29, 2010 at 2:01pm
Flash is still a very important part of the web, even if it is not the most important aspect of the web. The fact is that flash is used for video, web-gaming, site presentation, and user-input. So, yes, Flash is still an important part of the Web landscape, even if Javascript reigns, as well as other coding languages, are more widely used. It still brings in rich content to the Web.
Filtering content? At what point did I suggest Jobs was filtering porn from outside places? I said that he did not like porn, but that he was not actively trying to block people from getting it from outside sources, as that's pretty much impossible. Of course we all know there is no porn allowed in the Apple App. Store, as evidence by almost every porn app. being rejected from the Apple App. Store.
Finally, I have no qurall with the switch to HTML 5. It will be a lot hassle free to have a standard in place.
aaronj2906
June 29, 2010 at 11:42pm
I read reviews all over that seem to apply some kind of exclusivity between the HTML LANGUAGE and the FLASH PLUGIN. Few people realize that FLASH, in its basic form is an EMBEDED .SWF (possibly stacked) WITHIN the HTML code.
One exists within the other. External actionscripts and sql transactions/queries can exist outside the .SWF files, but flash itself is just a plugin.
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