Absolutely. The lame excuse leads to the obvious conclusion that he could not give a demo of YouTube streaming video, which is very curious.
It might be an ARM processor. Flash can run on an ARM (works on my Nokia N800), but that is not a free flash player from Adobe. Money is a known issue, so that might be the explanation.
It might indeed be a custom OS rather than linux and they don't have flash (a binary blob) running on their custom OS, but why would they not use linux???
Hmmm, it could be a MIPS derivative (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - I don't know what the flash player availability is on MIPS. Interesting thought...
Yes. I did not see the video live, am seeing it now that it is posted. I should not have speculated without seeing the video. Sorry. :-(
He also is doing the interview from a borrowed office, which could easily explain why he was unable to get the wifi running (ended up connecting via mifi, i.e. cellular).
It might be an ARM processor. Flash can run on an ARM (works on my Nokia N800), but that is not a free flash player from Adobe. Money is a known issue, so that might be the explanation.
It might indeed be a custom OS rather than linux and they don't have flash (a binary blob) running on their custom OS, but why would they not use linux???
Hmmm, it could be a MIPS derivative (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - I don't know what the flash player availability is on MIPS. Interesting thought...