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There’s a very old bug on Adobe’s JIRA bug tracker about flash video performance being absolutely abysmal on MacOS. One of the QA engineers at Adobe commented a while ago on that issue to explain that Adobe was currently focusing all their effort on mobile devices, and “didn’t have time” to fix the Mac version. There was an uproar, and the comment was removed. As I have the original in my mail, I thought I’d repost it here for posterity:
Poor performance on Mac OS X Updated: 10/06/09 10:09 PM Created: 11/01/08 03:57 PM The following comment has been edited on this issue: [ Permlink ] Author: John Chen Created on: 05/26/09 12:16 PM Edited by: John Chen Edited on: 10/07/09 11:35 AM Comment: We are well aware of this issue and there is already several bugs logged in our internal system. As with all bugs, they will be worked on based on priority. Please be patient. Original comment: Hi everyone, We are well aware of this issue and there is already several bugs logged in our internal system. As with all bugs, they will be worked on based on priority. I know how you all feel; it pisses me off to see h.264 streaming video such as ones from hulu.com take up 70-80% cpu usage on a MAC (PC uses about 30%). It heats up my MAC, drains my batteries, and lags for a second once in a while when streaming in 420p quality. What can be more important than fixing this MAC specific performance issue you ask? If you do a search on Google or have went to the recent MAX conference, you will understand that our highest priority will be optimizing our player to be faster than ninjas for mobile phones (http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10098883-92.html) If you were CEO, what would you do? Spend resource to fix this bug (it's not like it doesn't work- it's just not as good as PC) to make a million people happy, or give Flash to everyone with phones (billions of people?). These MANY INSANE "optimizations and new technology" will fix many performance issues; and perhaps, this one included. With all that said, I'll continue to push this bug to be fixed. I would fix this bug myself if I could... Please be patient. Project: Flash Player Components: Rendering Performance Affects Versions: Flash Player 10 Security Level: Public (All JIRA Users) Attachments: 01 safari play.jpg, 02 safari pause.jpg, 03 camino play.jpg, 04 camino pause.jpg, 978-1.jpg, activity-monitor-snow-leopard-20090629-113345.jpg, d2bb8b2ebb2ba4e4233ccf0c80dcd7c58f30c726.png