Apple's ban may have been aimed at Adobe Flash but it's causing collateral damage on other approaches.
We all know that a non Objective-C/C/C++ language compiler could be designed that emits code and and has a runtime that abides to the iPhone OS public APIs. This history of software application development has often been as much about the innovation of languages and tools as the fabrication of applications themselves. That a company is purposely choosing the freeze language and tool innovation in amber is the most heinous affront to the bedrock nature of our industry and our cultural ethos that I can conceive of. It's astounding to be coming from a company such as Apple that has itself always risked so much on shear gutsy innovation. To me, there's really nothing more offensive that a company could send as a message - that it is on-purpose shackling significant degrees of my potential to innovate on their platform. Thank goodness there is Android - which is an entirely exciting platform. And most splendidly Adobe and Google are aligning closely to where Flash will come pre-embedded in both the Chrome browser and in Android 2.2. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
