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)
ematth...@webershandwick.com 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: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com
[flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Pace
[anthony.p...@utoronto.ca]
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.
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