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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."
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.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
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?