--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <amyblankens...@...> wrote: > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "mitek17" <mitek17@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Seth Caldwell" <wiz@> wrote: > > > > > > Steve is employing several tactics used by politicians. The iphone is not > > > "open". > > > > iPhone is a device, not a technology. Technology should be open, device & > > software could be proprietary. Steve stresses it particularly, please read > > Job's message more throroughly. > > > > > > I hope that the pressure from Jobs will finally make Adobe get cracking. > > Get cracking at what? Steve Jobs is on record as saying that no matter what > Adobe does with the player, the iPhone and iTampon won't support it. > > -Amy
Frankly, I figured all this flap over Flash was because they wanted to try to force Adobe to make Flash-player open-source... And now you're saying that even if Adobe does that, they still won't allow Flash on their devices? That's stupid and stubborn of Jobs... And besides, if I own a device (I don't own any Apple devices, but if I did) I should be allowed to run whatever software I want to on it. It's MY device, not his. I own it, not him -- if he wants to give me one, and pay the monthly service for it, then he can tell me what I can run on it. Only then. Basically what Jobs is doing is screwing himself out of any potential business that I would ever give him. (For the project I'm working on now, we had plans to purchase about 50 iPads to use on-site. That's not gonna happen now... Glad doin' business with you, Steve -- we'll be buying Google or Dell tablets when they are available.) And it also pisses me off that everyone talks about video on Flash, as if that's the only thing it does. Jobs is singlehandedly ruining OUR jobs as Flex developers. That's really what it boils down to -- he's trying to put us out of business. We already can't write apps for Apple's portable devices -- and when he cuts off Flash support in OSX, there goes every Mac in the world. Thanks for ruining my job, Steve. Bastard. Laurence MacNeill Mableton, Georgia, USA
