Adobe CEO: Flash Battery Life Depends on Hardware Acceleration

“Getting a little more oomph out of your MacBook Air after giving Flash the boot? Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen stopped just short of saying that’s Apple’s fault for not handing Adobe a device ahead of time. We asked the CEO what the greater battery life sans flash in Apple’s new laptop meant for the platform vis-a-vis HTML5 at the Web 2.0 Summit just a few minutes ago. He said it’s really all about optimizing for silicon: ‘When we have access to hardware acceleration, we’ve proven that Flash has equal or better performance on every platform.’ You wouldn’t be blamed for thinking that sentence a cop-out, but that’s actually not the case – the chief executive says they’ve presently got a Macbook Air in the labs and have an optimized beta of Flash for the device presently in testing.”

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