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Adobe Evangelist Lashes Out Over Apple's "Original Language" Policy
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's recent decision to restrict the languages that may be used for iPhone and iPad development has provoked some invective from Adobe's platform evangelist Lee Brimelow. He writes on TheFlashBlog, 'This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple's devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won't allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D.' He ends his post with, 'Speaking purely for myself, I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple. Comments disabled as I'm not interested in hearing from the Cupertino Comment SPAM bots.'"
Nice work disabling comments. Let the Cupertino Comment SPAM Bots attack!!!
Oh, please. The Apple fanbois are legion, and never have anything good to say if you disparage their turtleneck-wearing leader or his elite products. Disabling comments is likely to leave the signal-to-noise ratio at exactly the same level it is without comments (zero divided by anything is still zero.)
John
Apple made a business decision... just like Adobe did when they bought Macromedia (and with it, Flash) and gave up on SVG.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Man is it nice to see someone *finally* think this through before just bashing Apple's "not open" platform. The iPhone API's move fast. Each iteration adds a ton of stuff. There is just no way any third party tool could keep up. Worse than that would be people getting locked into the CS5 platform creating iPhone, Android and WinPhone7 apps all from the same codebase. It would be a huge loss to end users because they would get apps that don't use any of the features specific to each platform that set them apart. People have to get over this crap. If you want to make an iPhone use Obj-C, C or C++. If you don't want to/can't learn them there are a TON of other platforms that could use great apps written with your tool of choice. Newsflash: the iPhone isn't the only mobile platform. If you don't like it you have choices. Let your dollars do the talking.
"stereotype"?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Dear Mr AC, Your comment has some substantive things to say about screen sizes and resolution. It appears that your comment was modded down because some moderators disagreed with it, not because of its quality. Just want you to know that we can see that.
Yeah, I read the book and I saw the commercial. Ironic.
This week, Slashdot featured a really good article form Slate that ended with this quote:
Steve Wozniak has said that he pre-ordered three iPads, two for himself and one for a friend. This is a testament to his incredible good nature and his loyalty both to the firm that marginalized him in the 1980s and to a friend, Jobs, who refused to write a foreword for his memoirs. Yet somewhere, deep inside, Wozniak must realize what the release of the iPad signifies: The company he once built now, officially, no longer exists.
That last sentence is really the core problem here. We were used to Steve Wozniak's Apple and we were in love with that Apple. Now the only Apple left is Steve Job's Apple. Times have changed but before we cast acerbic words at Jobs you must acknowledge he has led the company in a very profitable direction. Could he have done that while adhering to Wozniak's "open" idealism? That's the real debate here.
That is where your knowledge of history is askew. Steve Wozniak didn't build Apple. He built a computer which Steve Jobs leveraged to build a corporation. Steve Jobs and a group of talented venture capitalists, not to mention dozens of teams of engineers built Apple. Wozniak knows this as well.
shhhh stop talking rationally...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
funny, here i thought a web app could run on any standards compliant browser. There is your true cross platform....built on open, non proprietary, standards. You want to build a app which leverages the iphone, do it, not some half assed, lowest common denominator, app in a proprietary, patent encumbered toolkit like Silverturd or Flash.
Hmmmm.. what about 720p? I see a significant difference there.
On the other hand, I am running on 10.5.8, maybe that's part of the problem. (I do have the Snow Leopard installer but I am doing some critical stuff that I can't risk screwing up so I have delayed the upgrade till June).
How about Hulu? I also see a significant difference there at 480p. I also frequently find Flash ads that completely saturate my CPU, but in Windows they barely take half.