after linkhopping from one of the links on this thread, i came across this post http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/01/sympathy_for_the_devil.html by john nack from adobe
i think it addresses some of the points that have been picked up by this list although it still suffers from the flash = video arguement. njoi On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:19 AM, William Chadwick <wchadw...@gmail.com>wrote: > Paul, > > If I remember correctly, Apple is the little company that has the Mac- it's > like a PC only expensive and the software you use probably doesn't work on > it. > > Apple had a good thing way back when and they decided not to let other > companies build their hardware. Now they have a hobby market for their > machine. > > They are trying to do the same thing with their phones. They have a great > product. But they are attempting to control their market with a > straitjacket. These tactics will marginalize their new device to a smaller > religiously devoted following- just as happened with the Mac. > > Which is probably why Apple's cell phone "...market share fell from 18.1% > in > the third quarter to 16.6%" ( > > http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i5b66cf41076535513394892bc43fb243 > ) > > They are making good money- I wouldn't mind making that much money, but > they > could be even bigger. > > William > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Paul Andrews <p...@ipauland.com> wrote: > > > William Chadwick wrote: > > > >> Apple's decision is irritating, but they're going to loose out. Apple is > >> the > >> one who will suffer. > >> > >> > > They are suffering so badly the appstore is empty, nobody buys iPhones > and > > revenue is tiny.. ..I don't think so. Jobs did a smart thing keeping > flash > > off the iPhone. > > > > I really can't imagine why he isn't a Flash supporter.. > > > > Apple is raking the money in via the AppStore. > > > > William Chadwick > >> > >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Bob Wohl <bob.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> No, it's written with AS but not compiled to flash. It's all smoke and > >>> mirrors. > >>> > >>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Gustavo Duenas > >>> <gdue...@leftandrightsolutions.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> I don't get it, it says that ipad wouldn't support flash player, but > >>>> recently I read on adobe labs that there is possible in cs5 to make > app > >>>> (flash based) for iphone, then is not the same system? > >>>> > >>>> gus > >>>> On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:36 PM, Henrik Andersson wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> Gerry wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>> Flash Player 1. I emailed Tobias and he replied... > >>>>>> Sorry, but Gordon supports only SWF version 1.0 at this time. Export > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> your > >>> > >>> > >>>> movie to FP1 and it will works great. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> Can you even do that with recent Flash versions? > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Flashcoders mailing list > >>>>> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > >>>>> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
