Will Adobe Sue Apple Over Flash?

An anonymous reader writes "Apple's iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple's face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks."

Comments

Re:It would be cheaper to fix the damned product.

[Anonymous Coward]

same thing happens to me with iTunes on PC.

I was never able to get it working properly on my PC. But I'm assuming you mean "Windows", not "PC". Unfortunately for that supposition, "Windows machines" are a subset of "Personal Computers". People like you are the reason we *have* iShit. If you can't tell the difference between a computer and an operating system, get a piece of iCrap with one big button to push to do everything.

Same thing as with Java.

[Hurricane78]

Jobs is an extreme control-freak. The east-German Stasi would have been proud of him.
He will go as far as making Youtube and 90% of all applications* unavailable to his clients, just to keep total control over everything.
Sorry, but that’s completely insane from a business perspective. And without his massively extreme viral marketing, he would not survive a month with it.
Which somehow reminds me of Microsoft...

* Your reality might already be distorted here, without you knowing it, but that’s really the percentage of Apps out there that are Java based. They are so common, and they run on every single phone out there (except for the iPhone), that it’s pretty normal, to not even mention that they are Java apps.
I know because I work in the business, and am doing it myself.

Re:Seriously?

[twitterfire]

That store shouldn't exist at all. All developers should be free to publish their apps wherever thay want for whatever price they want. It's called DEMOCRACY. Unfortunately, capitalism is heading from free market to corporate dictatorship.

Re:I'm conflicted

[IgnoramusMaximus]

Shorter you: "Waaah, life is complicated! We can't deal with it without the Holy Priesthood of Law to talk to the Legal Gods for us and to interpret their Holy Verdicts from the patterns of fish-guts! Where would we be without their benevolent assistance! They work sooooo hard ruling us ... for our own good!"

And speaking of complexity of software: if programmers wrote programs the way lawyers make laws, a

int x=0; while(x < 10) { printf ("%d\n", x); x++ }

would be written as a 20 pages of code, at least. They would make graduates of 3-month programming courses from diploma-mills look like Knuth and Dijkstra-level gurus.

iCrap

[cheatch]

Apple can get away with murder, glad some company is calling their iCrap. If Microsoft tried half of the things Apple has pulled off the last few years they be sued into oblivion.

Re:I'm conflicted

[Captain Splendid]

Oh yeah, because everyone knows that hammers get paid for their job at the cost triple of the worth of that trellis

Yeah, because you're too stupid to shop around.

were originally directly responsible for spreading the rot to the trellis

Wow. Guilt by association of profession. Fucking nice leap there, moron.

that you build the new trellis using exclusively them

You repeat yourself.

all the while ensuring that the new trellis is not rot resistant as to ensure further employment in the future rot-infestation-problem they plan for you to have

Yawn. Get a better contract, then. Or, gasp, sue for the breach. Again, it's the game, not the players...

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