[Legodude522]

Macromedia Flash Player is not avaliable to Linux on the Power PC platform for no apparent reason. I just installed Ubutnu on my iBook and loving it. But I can't vist a lot of the websites I go to now because there is no Flash. Macromedia Flash What BS this is.

[Brad]

The "BS" is that no commercial operation in their right mind is going to cater a free product like the Flash Player to PPC Linux users.

About the only PPC platform is Apple's computers. They make up about 5% of the market if you're being generous. Then, only a tiny minority of those users are going to replace Mac OS X with Linux. Again, let's say it's 1% and that's being very generous too. So, that makes the PPC Linux market about 0.05% at best. Furthermore, these users aren't customers. There's no Macromedia Studio for PPC Linux. There's no Dreamweaver or Director or FreeHand for PPC Linux. So, there would be absolutely no monetary return on investing in a free PPC Linux Flash plugin.

Would you want to invest money in developing and supporting software on a platform that consists of a twentieth of a percent of the overall market and that will never buy any of your products?

[torifile]

Looks like you didn't do the research you needed to do before getting into Linux.

[Brad]

So, torifile, I'm wondering if it's too early to start saying, "I told you so!" What do you think?

[Legodude522]

I use Linux on PCs and have Flash player. But they don't have it for PPC which I feel is rediculus.

[torifile]

Originally Posted by Brad So, torifile, I'm wondering if it's too early to start saying, "I told you so!" What do you think?

It's NEVER too early to gloat.

I TOLD YOU SO!!!

[chucker]

That thread title should have been "Linux on the Desktop. ugh".

[MCQ]

Actually, can an admin change the title to "No Flash player in PPC Linux." please?

[Brad]

Aye! Done!

[Legodude522]

The only way to learn is to experience it yourself.

[julesstoop]

To experience yourself, The only wat to learn is.

[Koodari]

Originally Posted by Legodude522 The only way to learn is to experience it yourself.

Nah. Normal people learn from their mistakes. Stupid people do not learn from their mistakes. Wise people learn from other people's mistakes.

Brad, what difference does it make whether Macromedia offers authoring products for the platform? The authors will still want to reach everyone regardless of platform, so the existence of PPC Linux port for Flash Player is an incentive to buy Flash studio for Windows.
(Of course it's about marketshare and I agree PPC Linux surely doesn't have enough to make a port cost effective.)

[staph]

God you guys are bitches.

There's always GPLFlash. You'll probably want to build v.2 from CVS in order to get any appearance of compatibility with flash content using versions of Flash newer than five years old.