I see you're trying to be objective, but the crux of Job's bogus argument is it's impossible to make good apps for the iPhone in the Flash development environment, and they're protecting their consumers.
Others have pointed out that even if this is true, which it's not, part of the problem would be that Apple hasn't worked with Adobe on making the Player perform optimally on Macs. Plus, the app store has a lot of crappy apps among the 200,000 that weren't developed with Flash; if Apple's concern was user experience, they'd be more selective in apps made available, regardless of how they were developed. And why the selective enforcement of the "no cross compilers unless they're originally coded in one of three flavors of C?" I'm a decades long Apple fanatic and own stock, but their recent behavior has been spiteful and benefits neither developers or consumers. Jon Stewart's commentary says it all. And today, we find Apple is shutting down LaLa.com, which it recently acquired. http://mashable.com/2010/04/30/lala-shutdown/ This move is the equivalent of Capitol buying Virgin Records and sending someone out to your house to take back all your old David Bowie, XTC, Peter Tosh records and telling it’s OK, you can look through our catalog, I’m sure you’ll find something you’ll like just as much! Apple, meet shark. Jump! Also as others have insinuated, Adobe isn't vested in people having the Flash Player. If exporting as HTML5+JS will perform everything without the Flash Player, Adobe will have nothing to loose and everything to gain: they won't have to promote the plug-in nor provide and maintain downloads for the Player. Adobe moving on is their way of saying "OK, hotshot, bring it on." ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Pace [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 8:16 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] letter from Steve Jobs on Flash After complaining for years that developers needed access to the raw audio data from the mic, that we are just finally seeing progress in 10.1. The lack of feature support in their tools, the bugs they have had for years with unloading objects, and the performance issues the player has, all make it so Adobe has almost no legs to stand on; for, as Steve Jobs' said: "We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers." However, although the above is most definitely true, Apple is forcing users and developers into a world with one standard and one figure head to dictate all measures. Plainly put, apple is being too "big brother" about this. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
