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Originally posted by MarkTiarra
That sounds like the same line of thinking that had my friends back in 95 and 96 saying how stupid the web was and how it would never go commercial because it was meant to be free all the way. There is still plenty of free stuff out there, but we're all here because adult sites do commerce. And, BTW - most of that commerce is NOT in pictures... people don't join paysites for the pics usually, it's the live shows and videos. There's plenty of pics for free...
So, while I agree that "stupid Flash tricks" are pretty much pointless... I disagree that the medium is not going to evolve. The lines between TV and the Internet will blur as people and companies find ways to better entertain people and get them to buy things by seeing positive results from new interactive models.
Let me give you a hypothetical for instance:
Imagine a day when you your TV is hooked up to a "super" broadband connection as well as your computer. You're a big fan of the show "Friends." You get home at 10pm on Thursday and you want to see the last episode... no prob - NBC is no longer a channel - it's a video on demand location. You pull up the show and watch. After the episode is over, it reminds you of an older one and you feel like seeing it. You go back to the NBC "site" and pay some micro fee or maybe no fee at all and watch that episode too....
During that episode they run a commercial for a cool new MP3 player for your car. You want more info - you head off to that sales "site" where you can speak to a live sales rep right over the TV. Get demos, etc... place your order...
Order done, you return to the show where you left off.
You wouldn't HAVE to do this or interact with anyone, you could choose to simply check it out in the ol paper, but if companies are seeing increased sales and positive reponse to that kind of interactivity, then it's going to happen whether everyone likes it or not...
Not everyone (as we can cleary see here) likes flash. Fact is 80% of the people given the choice at http://www.lumyr.com still chose it. The other 20% (thanks to you guys sharing opinions with me =]) get to use the HTML only site instead.
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that's all great stuff.. and it'll probably become reality someday.... but that's still all convenience type interactivity stuff. Interactive can be as simple as a line of text with a hyperlink. Everything you mentioned can be done completely without Flash of any kind.... so, I fail to see how this is an argument FOR flash.... and comparing the value of flash to the value of the Internet as a technology is a pretty big leap Mark.... lol