But SJ is not your mother. He does not have to be sincere with you in his
proclamations. And you in turn would be unwise to expect him to be. There are
two flavours of Kool-Aid on offer here, Apple-flavoured ("Flash destroys user
experience") and Adobe-flavoured ("It's about avoiding lock-in").
The key issue is effect. I think all those articles being churned out by the IT
press to analyze this in terms of who is being most honest are an incredible
waste of bandwidth. Effect is what matters. The key medium-term effect is that
Flash is going to take a beating, HTML5 is going to surge. (Good, from where
us openness types stand.) If I were Adobe, I'd be positioning myself as maker
of HTML5 content/app creation tools pronto...
P.
On May 03, 2010, at 14:34, Christopher Nambale wrote:
> I beg to disagree. Indeed, I think this debate is healthy in a way.
>
> While SJ has a right do whatever he wants to make more money, it is
> hypocritical of him to support openness only when it suits him. His defense
> on why they don't use flash on their products should have stuck to the
> technical details, he shouldn't have made any reference to openness to quote
> "Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we
> strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open."
>
> Perhaps more interesting was his admission that closed systems leave you at
> the mercy of the owner:
>
> "If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries and tools,
> they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if and when the third
> party chooses to adopt the new features. We cannot be at the mercy of a third
> party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our
> developers."
>
> Hello Mr SJ if you are so averse to being at the mercy of others what about
> the people who buy your products whose use of these products is restricted to
> only the features you choose to support at that time, how different is this?
>
> If it makes technical and business sense for them to reject Flash on their
> products so be it, let him turn away those clients who need Flash for now,
> what he shouldn't do is to try to justify it in the court of public opinion.
> Perhaps to better understand his motivation in this debate please read:
>
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iHqf7jhi51QJ:tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/19/why-is-steve-jobs-flash-obsessed/+steve+jobs+flash&cd=5&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl
>
> CN
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 5/3/10, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]
> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 12:56 AM
>
> Oh my! That Ass Technica writer fails to win by volume! SJ will champion
> what best brings cash into his account. If that promotes the free/open
> religion, then that is purely accidental even if it's good. This guy gets it:
> http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/29/jobs_on_flash/#c_752789
> On May 02, 2010, at 20:02, Christopher Nambale wrote:
>
>> And FSF's 'non of the above' recommendation.
>> http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to-steve-jobs-letter-on-flash.ars
>>
>> CN
>>
>> --- On Sun, 5/2/10, Richard Zulu <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Richard Zulu <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]
>> To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
>> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 1:27 AM
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10093314.stm
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