News - Adobe Flash evangelist tells Apple to screw itself

[HEXUS]

It?s getting personal after Apple restricted the use of third party development platforms on the iPhone.

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[TheAnimus]

Well you could argue the merits of your platform, or you could just .......

It is interesting because Adobe have returned to profitability by focusing on the windows market, anyone except a rabid fanboy will tell you that £1,200 easily goes further on Microsoft for making a higher performance PC or laptop for photoshopping.

As such who would they really hurt by starting to delay the release of photoshop on the mac? That would be my tactic to remind them who their friends are.

Apple clearly don't give a damn about the issue of performance or code security of flash, its all about their sales channel been the one and only for all content end to end. Their dev tools are rather crap, objective C is a very outdated small talk clone after all, they do kind of need adobe in the middle.

[finlay666]

Apple clearly don't give a damn about the issue of performance or code security of flash, its all about their sales channel been the one and only for all content end to end. Their dev tools are rather crap, objective C is a very outdated small talk clone after all, they do kind of need adobe in the middle.

+ not caring about developers or encouraging education systems to adopt it as a teaching medium (MS provide free licences to the marketplace for students via dreamspark and as with android dev toolss/sdk is free to access)

I think you can use C++ now for it, however even so the T+C's on the SDK are quite restrictive

Reminds me of the micky take "great sites to look at on the ipad" with all the sites that used flash. IIRC it's partly why Youtube changed.

[mikerr]

Other companies get fined millions of pounds for lesser restrictions...

[Saracen]

I'm sorry to say Apple have a history of this type of tactic - restricting access, becuase they have the "better" platform, and want to 'preserve it's integrity' (my phrase, to describe how I see their attitude).

And after all, it worked so well in the battle between the Mac and the PC standard.

If Apple hadn't had their heads firmly stuck in .... erm .... the sand, the balance between PC and Apple platforms might not be so dominated by PC.

It seems old dogs aren't the only things incapable of learning new tricks. Sad, in my view, but not exactly a shock.

[JimmyBoy]

well why dont adobe pull all of their software for mac or just release no further updates for things like photoshop and flash?

[Brewster0101]

well why dont adobe pull all of their software for mac or just release no further updates for things like photoshop and flash?

No photoshop on Macs would pretty much put a nail in the coffin for the Mac... Do it Adobe, screw Apple.

[finlay666]

No photoshop on Macs would pretty much put a nail in the coffin for the Mac... Do it Adobe, screw Apple.

Just leaving high end video and audio editing.... and shiny laptops

[[GSV]Trig]

No shock Apple doing this tho really is it, instead of going away and coming out with something good they clamp down there stuff or sue people, very much a "screw you guys, I'm taking my ball and going home" way of doing things..
I found out a few weeks ago that they charge people that develop apps for the ipod/iphone $99 to put those apps on the istore thing, so, if your a dev and you have an app that you do in your spare time and dont want anything for it costs you to put it out there, so people have to have a jailbroken unit..
Backwards, especially as there are bigger better things coming out even from Microsoft...

[hypnoticstate]

lo, just excellent!