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????日前，科技博客Engadget表示， Verizon版XOOM的廣告海報右下角標明，首批上市的Android平板電腦XOOM將不會搭載Adobe Flash。 ????Adobe本月22日確認，第一批上市的蜂巢平板電腦中，有一些將不支持Flash。 ????Adobe將為一些平板電腦預裝Flash Player 10.2，而對于Android 3（蜂巢）平板電腦，Adobe將在其上市后的幾個星期里，為其提供空中下載支持。預計摩托羅拉（Motorola）XOOM將是第一款下載Flash Player 10.2的產品。 ????摩托羅拉同樣確認首批XOOM將不會搭載Flash。 ????“摩托羅拉XOOM將全面支持Adobe? Flash? Player?，以訪問互聯網海量視頻及動畫，這一切在產品上市后就會實現。” ????為何會推遲搭載Flash？我們對此并不確定，不過很可能是谷歌（Google）的Android團隊“斃”了Adobe。Adobe的公關部門并未明確表示Flash延期的原因，不過最有可能的是性能問題。新一批的Android平板電腦擁有1280x 800的高清顯示屏，假如Flash視頻在此分辨率下高清播放，可能會大量消耗英偉達（Nvidia）圖睿（Tegra）2處理器的性能，電池續航也會受到影響。 ????如果摩托羅拉希望實現其產品規格表里所標示的10小時以上續航時間，那電池殺手Flash肯定要被排除在外。如果去掉了Flash，那么最早一批的評測者們將會得到和蘋果（Apple）iPad差不多的成績（可能還會更好，因為XOOM的電池容量更大）。 ????然而，雖然去除Flash也許能提高Android平板電腦最初的性能，但絕大部分用戶“很快”還是會為產品安裝上Flash。關于Flash最常見的批評來自蘋果首席執行官史蒂夫?喬布斯及其追隨者，他們稱Flash速度緩慢、耗電量大、不可靠，而且還有安全隱患。 ????過去一年，Adobe在Flash性能發面做了大量優化（在摩托羅拉的Atrix手機上試試Flash吧，效果好得驚人，該手機使用的也是圖睿2處理器，和蜂巢平板電腦一樣。）最初的Flash 10.1 測試版發布在為Nexus One提供升級的Froyo系統里，此后，Flash取得了長足進步。 ????日前，Adobe還公布了一些非常令人震撼的數字： ????我們對與摩托羅拉等合作伙伴一道，在Flash的平板電腦優化方面取得的進展非常高興，我們希望這一勢頭能繼續下去。我們上周曾宣布，有超過2000萬部智能手機在2010年安裝或升級了Flash Player產品；有超過15萬的用戶在Android市場里將此產品評為4.5星（總共5星）。我們已經提高了2011年的預期，我們預計到年底，將有超過1.32億部設備安裝上Flash。消費者顯然希望平板電腦能支持Flash，現在的好消息是他們不需要等太久。我們預計在2011年，將有超過50款支持互聯網全部功能的平板電腦上市（包括Flash支持），XOOM用戶將會首先獲得真正的互聯網體驗。 ????所以Adobe還需要時間在搭載圖睿2的Android 3.0系統中優化Flash。Flash在手持設備上的全屏運行速度令評測者們印象深刻。當最終版Flash在蜂巢上優化成功，其性能也許會更加優越。 ????譯者：項航 |
????First spotted yesterday in the lower right hand corner of Verizon's (VZ) XOOM ad, Adobe's Flash will not be shipping on the first Android tablets to hit the market this week. ????Adobe (ADBE) this morning acknowledged that it wouldn't be shipping Flash in some of the initial Honeycomb tablets. ????Adobe will offer Flash Player 10.2 pre-installed on some tablets and as an OTA download on others within a few weeks of Android 3 (Honeycomb) devices becoming available, the first of which is expected to be the Motorola (MMI) Xoom. ????Motorola also confirmed the missing Flash component: ????"Motorola XOOM will include full support for Adobe? Flash? Player? for accessing the rich video and animations of the web, to be available after launch." ????What's the hold up? We're not sure here but Google's (GOOG) Android team are probably the ones who sent Adobe back to the drawing board. Adobe wasn't able to articulate the delay in PR-speak but it is most likely a performance issue. The new round of Andorid tablets have 1280x 800 HD displays which Flash videos, when viewed at full resolution, could really tax the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and by extension, the battery. ????If Motorola is to meet the 10+ hours of battery live they've listed in their specs, a battery-hogging Flash player isn't going to help. By leaving Flash out, the early reviewers are going to get results like Apple's iPad (or better - the XOOM has a bigger battery). ????However, the lack of Flash might improve the initial performance of Android tablets and at the same time still give most users access to Flash "soon!" A common criticism of Flash by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his disciples is that Flash is slow, power hungry, unreliable and a security threat. ????Adobe has made numerous improvements over the year in Flash's performance (try it on a Motorola Atrix, which uses the same Tegra 2 processor as the Honeycomb Tablets - it blazes!). It has also come a long way from the original 10.1 Beta version that shipped with the Froyo update on the Nexus Ones. ????Adobe also announced some pretty impresive number in the post today: ????We are excited about the progress we've made optimizing Flash for tablets, alongside partners including Motorola, and expect our momentum to continue. As we announced last week, over 20 million smartphones were shipped or upgraded with Flash Player in 2010 and over 150,000 consumers on the Android Market are rating it 4.5 out of 5 stars. We have raised our estimates for 2011 and expect to see Flash installed on over 132 million devices by the end of this year. Consumers are clearly asking for Flash support on tablet devices and the good news is that they won't have to wait long. We are aware of over 50 tablets that will ship in 2011 supporting a full web experience (including Flash support) and Xoom users will be among the first to enjoy this benefit. ????So Adobe may require additional time to optimize Flash for Android 3.0 on the Tegra 2. Hands on reviewers were impressed by the speed at which full screen Flash played on the handhelds. Perhaps we'll see even better performance when the final version of Flash is ready for Honeycomb. |
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