On May 4, 2010, at 2:16 AM, mike wrote:
A false argument, Apple supports all kinds of 'old technology', why does
Apple still put USB on their systems?
If you don't know that Apple is consistently the first to drop obsolete technologies you haven't been paying attention. You haven't even been reading the howls here about Apple dropping USB.
Apple drops USB App syncing for iPhones, not desktops/notebooks, except
for its giant iPod. Since you can get your apps directly from the App
Store on your iPhone, this is no big deal.
Did they announce they're dropping USB completely? No.
Regarding Flash, Adobe has a knack for buying good programs and
breaking, discontinuing, or overpricing them. Have they created any of
their own products lately [in the past 15 years]?
Apple didn't entirely ban Flash anyway. They require that apps for touch
screens be developed using the Apple SDK. Adobe refused to use the SDK
or to make Flash more open--it's totally proprietary. There's no
guarantee that Flash will work properly without interfering with the
underlying system.
I don't like Flash. It's overused unnecessarily. It doesn't belong on
most web pages where simpler nonproprietary code works better and
faster--contributes too much to the World Wide Wait and crashes.
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