I just have to chime in a little bit here... I really don't want to burn time on verbosity... I read most of this tiresome thread and saw a lot of great points made by many folks. Thanks everyone for spending your time and keystrokes here!
> FOR LINUX ADVOCATES: > This entire discussion is pointless, because everything should be in > Ogg. Also, nothing should cost anything, "Serenity" was the best > movie ever made, unicorns really exist, and they fart rainbows. This made me pee my pants. No Dick, I don't think it was directed at you or even true - it was just really funny. The other point I wanted to make is simple: Apple is a company that sells devices and software integrated together to provide an optimum user experience. That is their focus. They don't care about other platforms besides Mac OS X and iPhone OS, because they don't sell devices that run anything besides those. You can very easily understand their motivations and actions if you simply grok Apple for what Apple is. It is a US-based company, operating in the US-centric capitalist economy, selling a combination of devices and software (primarily devices) that provide an excellent user experience. Don't trivialize the end-user experience bit of that - it implies a LOT. That's it. They're focused, very smart, and executing quite well. As of recent, there are many threats to their growing market share (primarily Android, in my opinion), thus they will do what they can to mitigate those threats within the boundaries of doing business. I think that's the motivation for the HTC lawsuits. We'll see who ends up holding the invention rights after that all settles out. The Gawker smack-down is due to them losing revenue from lost iPhone sales this quarter now that folks are waiting for the "next" one. Oh, and it was stolen property and all that... The Flash thing, in my opinion, is a complete side-show to all of this. There's really two Flashes. Flash on the *web* is great and all, and would probably be on the iPhone/iPad today if the software was efficient enough on the Apple's mobile platform. It's not - at least not yet. Flash as a *software* platform (Air, cross-complies, etc) is simply a potential threat to the software side of Apple's platform(s), thus they're trying to block it if they can - both as a threat to their platform itself, and as a problem for end-user experience (keeping up with versions, features, etc). This isn't the same as the Flash on the web. Anyway, in my opinion - as a web developer/designer - I think it's better to develop web applications with open standards such as HTML/ CSS/JS, rather than Flash, for a host of reasons many of which have been discussed over and over. Most of what you see in web apps using Flash are things that can be done in HTML/CSS/JS. They just have really good tools which make it easier to build in Flash for less skilled developers. The really rich apps (RIA stuff) can be done a host of different ways, including in Flash - but you're going to get pushback from platform vendors when their native platform is challenged. - Joe -- 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.
