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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."
Hmm - it seems to me that apple is raping it's customer base and trying to make it ok by using lube.
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Indeed. I recently switched to Linux on my desktop. I used to use an iPod Touch for music and podcasts, but it's now collecting dust, because Apple refuses to publish interoperability information regarding their devices (and also refuses to port iTunes to Linux, which I suspect would be a trivial effort, but I don't think they WANT iTunes on a platform that could threaten OS X one day).
Apple basically sets their stuff up so that if you buy 1 piece of Apple equipment you're going Apple all the way or the whole thing will break. There's no TECHNICAL reason for that situation, and the artificial creation of such a situation should be regulated IMHO.
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This is why I don't by Iwhatever. I have an Android based phone and it plays flash just fine (java works great too). I don't need an Iwhatever at an absurd price with an expensive fancy contract that doesn't work very well.
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I don't understand why the EU isn't all over Apple for this stuff. As ridiculous as the MS browser choice stuff is, what Apple is up to in my opinion is far worse than having IE installed by default in windows. I dislike IE as much as the next slashdotter, but how about some consistency?
Everybody is obsessing about Flash. Meanwhile, 9 times out of 10, it does not work on even a desktop in Mac OS X or Windows. "Do you want to abort the script?" Oh yes, please...
I can't wait for the day that my web browsing experience is totally ruined on my iPhone/iPad by Flash just like it is every single day on my desktop/laptop machines.
I would love to see Flash on my iPhone, as long as Adobe fixes it and Flash producers, especially ad makers, actually make sure it will not totally crap the bed every single time it is loaded.
To me it seems the distaste of Apple by slashdotters stems from the fact that "cool" tech stuff is no longer exclusive to geeks or people with strong technical prowess. Big ego drain for the tech savvy slashdotters. we'd rather side with adobe than apple on this? On one side we have Adobe products with gigantic unsecured attack surfaces for viruses and malware causing countless dollars lost in downtime and labor. On the other we have Apple creating a product their customers demand????
Oh wait, so all those years that Adobe pretty much kept Apple alive....
Do you mean the years that the users kept Apple alive, while Adobe was leaning on them to move to windows?
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A tiny bit more complicated than that though. Apple has built a platform that is based on experience. Therefore the approval process, no multitasking (and what we have for now still isn't multitasking as per se, it's just addressing most commonly absent scenarios via services that apple takes responsibility to maintain), and a very much valid distrust at giving the world and the dog capability to throw something together in a 5 minutes quick-bang-buck way (Yes, I know there are lots of examples that prove the contrary, but we'll get there).
You can manage xcode to actually build something from your code, get all the certificates sorted out and have bought a $2K platform for development? Good, there is a chance you might have something useful. You have ported your 8 years old JME game and 5 years old flash granny banger to our platform? Good (very, very good) chances it's shit.
Alas the open android market has killed android devices for me. Perhaps when there's a Gold/Premium market with all the controls (and hopefully even more strict ones) that apple apply. It's FULL OF FUCKING STEAMY SMELLY RUNNY SHIT! There, I said it. Open market does no good when people out there have such low expectations for their experience on mobile devices. Apple does what it can to raise the bar. That's their differentiation. And even when it comes to fart applications there's a difference between fart application with misaligned button with misspelled label that fails to produce the fart when I poke the device and slick polished asshole I can look into and enjoy my piece of flying excrement action (tasteful brown-pinkish hue at that) at the slightest flick of a tongue*. And last I saw, their financial statements seems to justify it. Funny enough as a publicly traded company it is now their duty to defend this unique position in the market. Well, ether that or Steve just hates Adobes guts. But to be fair I personally thing its the former.
*Experiences and perceptions may differ, but criteria remains valid.