Thanks Dave for your input. You always hit good points.
On Apr 15, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Dave Watts wrote:
Purely because it's not in Apple's perceived business interest to do so. That's the only reason. There are various technical-sounding excuses given - poor performance, poor quality for cross-platform apps - but that's all BS. Apple makes money from the App Store. Allowing Flash detracts from the value of the App Store. Allowing developers to use cross-platform tools detracts from the value of the App Store; if I can build an app for Apple and Android simultaneously, the App Store has less of an advantage over the Android Market.
I say put flash on there and let the customers and designers decide on their own. I mean what is the harm in putting flash in ONE SDK?? You can always remove it on the next release if it goes belly up. PLUS lets not forget the unseen. All the apps that could sell that we would build. For their phone no doubt. That customers will by partly because of our apps.
Regardless if they buy an app at the app store, people still have to buy their phone. Their just being greedy, and were just being pawns. No offense to anyone, thats just the reality I see in it. Me included. It would be sad if client/customers couldn't find developers that would design for the iPhone because they were being children about their toy.
Apple has no incentive to zip up their pants. This strategy makes it likely they'll get (and keep) a big pile of money. Adobe would like to pull their pants up, since Apple didn't even kiss them first, but
:) I had a real good dirty one, but I will spare the masses.
there's really nothing they can do short of a lawsuit, and I doubt that'll be successful in any case. Apple can make up whatever ridiculous rules they want, as they only have a small slice of the mobile market. They're not a monopoly by a long shot.
Thats why I have no incentive to play by their rules. There are a too many ways to sell web presence and mobile presence.
There's only one problem, really. HTML 5 kind of sucks. And it's certainly no replacement for native apps. Web apps don't have access to most of the good stuff in the phone - contacts, etc.
Well so does regular HTML in comparison to flash, so it would be more of the same but more bells and whistles. And I was only speaking of websites not native apps with the HTML 5 comment.
No, but interestingly there is an "alternative" app store called Cydia for jailbroken phones. But jailbreaking is not an alternative if you really want to sell your apps. Hobbyists jailbreak their phones. Typical users don't, and never will.
YES! That is what I was talking about. Cydia. I think they have over a million customers last time I checked. Thats a lot of hobbyists. :) but still.. even at 99¢ x 1,000,000 = $990,000
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