Khoji On Tech (and more)

The iPhone’s version of Safari will probably not support Flash. Pundits trying to explain this are coming up with many complex conspiracy theories, but the real reason is probably much simpler: Battery Life. Flash is a processor-intensive technology (just watch the processor load on your computer jump when you open a Flash site!) and supporting Flash could significantly cut battery life if users spend a lot of time viewing Flash sites and Flash videos. After all their travails with iPod batteries, reports about short battery life on the iPhone are definitely not something Apple wants in the first months after the launch.