My statement didn't refer to Jobs controlling the platform. IMO, he is doing what he thinks he needs to do to get the Flash player on his devices. Adobe will have the Flash Player on every non-Apple device in the near future... and I think Jobs is positioning his company for some concessions to get it on his devices as well. Again this is just my opinion.
Also the Appstore money, while nice to the bottom line, is peanuts compared to the money they make on hardware sales. Jobs wants to sell mobile devices and a future selling point will be the Flash Player... IMO. gregb -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Andrews Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:07 AM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] and now..CLIENT now hates Flash Gregory Boudreaux wrote: > Also Flash is playing a bigger role in corporate eLearning, especially > after Adobe ended support for Authorware... and all the third party > development tools that publish .swfs. In addition to Adobe Connect with > its presentations and virtual classroom features. > > My personal opinion is that Jobs is trying to push Adobe to fix whatever > problems he feels the Flash Player has on the Mac and get it to a state > where he feels they can do business. He is playing this out in the > public arena so that he can build up some support and maybe make Adobe > speed things up a bit. With the emergence of Google in the mobile > device market, Apple will need to step it up to stay on top the > mountain... and I think one of those things will be to have the Flash > Player on Apple mobile devices. It will be this big announcement and > everyone will think it is the greatest thing since the iPhone. > It's not technical. App via Appstore = apple income $$$. App via flash developer = 0$ Anyway, we can talk all we like Jobs is in control of the platform, not Adobe. Adobe has taken the cross-compiling route to leverage "native" flash onto the platform. Paul > gregb > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
