I think its time to read what you wrote yourself as you've authored some inaccuracies yourself in regards to Apple working with Adobe, the whole flavors of C thing, etc. It's very interesting reading for the first twenty posts or so, but i think its time for me to filter this thread.
E. Sent from my iPad On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:59 PM, "Mattheis, Erik (MIN - WSW)" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
