Comments on: Ice cube predicts demise of Flash !

By: Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm » Blog Archive » Silverlight on TV and in Startups

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:21:37 +0000

[...] One particular show was Entertainment Tonight. Walking back to my office, I saw the Microsoft Silverlight logo. Naturally I slammed on the breaks, and stood there staring. This guy, one of the ET hosts, talking in all announcer voice went “Go to ET online where you can view other video content powered EXCLUSIVELY by Microsoft Silverlight”. Wow. I think I’d convulse on the ground like a 1980’s break dancer if they said that about Flash Player. If Ice-T wasn’t enough, now we have TV shows marketing it. Holy fish. [...]

By: arpit

arpit — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:31:31 +0000

@Mike,
I see that on all sites promoting silverlight and its always funny. Worst was when the Halo3 kickass site came out in Flash and then a really bad one was released using Silverlight.

@Jonathan
Good catch, although I have had Silverlight work pretty well on Macs, I suppose the guy is running the VM for the IDE, since I dont think Visual Studio exists for a Mac.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:14:54 +0000

At 2:48, it looks like they are running a VM on their Macbook Pro to run Windows. So it runs on Mac.. just not natively. I wonder if they will be handing out free VMs with Windows for Macs?

By: Mike J

Mike J — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:48:30 +0000

I like how the video itself is Flash video. If you’re promoting how great your new video delivery is, wouldn’t you want to deliver it USING that technology rather than the competition you’re attempting to denounce ( since this is via MSN ) – that’s pure pro player.

And oddly enough MSN SoapBox doesn’t support Opera, heh.

By: Kevin Fitzpatrick

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:43:54 +0000

Oh noes! We’re done for!

Oh, oh, oh wait. I thought you said Ice T said flash is done. Now if it were him, I’d be worried. Cus when Ice T calls you out, you better go hide. He’ll call all of CSI down on your tuchus.

By: mattjpoole

mattjpoole — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:57:14 +0000

… actually ocs found it and told me feeling guitly now for stealing his thunder

By: mattjpoole

mattjpoole — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:55:56 +0000

*snap*

By: Osc23

Osc23 — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:55:15 +0000

Is it me? Or does http://www.icecube.com use flash?

By: mattjpoole

mattjpoole — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:54:40 +0000

I see that Icecube’s website is written in flash

http://www.icecube.com/

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:47:44 +0000

And next week Dr Dre will be introducing us the finer points of Binary Socket programming