09.11.2010 07:05 Uhr, Quelle: The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Adobe CTO defends Flash against battery life criticism

In response to Ars Technica's recent finding that running Adobe's Flash Player on the new MacBook Air cut battery life by up to a third, Adobe's CTO, Kevin Lynch, has come out in in defense of his company's plugin during an interview with Fast Company. "It's a false argument to make," he claims. "When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content. If you used HTML5, for example, to display advertisements, that would use as much or more processing power than what Flash uses." That's a nice theory, but that's not what Ars Technica's battery life results show. Given that

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