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Adobe Stops Development For iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the flash-in-the-pad dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "Adobe's principal product manager Mike Chambers announced that Adobe is no longer investing in iPhone-based Flash development. The move comes after Apple put out a new draft of its iPhone developer program license, which banned private APIs and required apps to be written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine. According to Chambers, Adobe will still provide the ability to target the iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5, but the company is not currently planning any additional investments in that feature." Daring Fireball points out approvingly Apple's rebuttal to the claim that Flash is an open format, however convenient it might be for iPad owners. Related: The new app policy seems to be inconsistently enforced. Reader wilsonthecat writes "Novell have released a new press release in response to Apple's announcement that none-C/C++/Objective-C based iPhone application development breaks their SDK terms. The press release names several apps that have made it past app review process since the new Apple SDK agreement."

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  1. Adobe also said... by InsertWittyNameHere · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Despite what their Facebook status says, we broke up with Apple first."

    1. Re:Adobe also said... by jDeepbeep · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Despite what their Facebook status says, we broke up with Apple first."

      LIKE

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  2. Pretty amusing, actually. by Beelzebud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seeing one closed off, 'play by our rules or gtfo' company, whining about another closed off 'play by our rules or gtfo' company is golden.

  3. Android... by the_one_wesp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Adobe is instead focusing on other platforms, namely Android. Chambers said he will personally shift "all of my mobile focus" from the iPhone to Android, and that he has a particular interest in Android-based tablets.

    Guess that means we'll be seeing more flash based porn apps?

  4. Re:Objective C? by squiggleslash · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a rival to Fair and Balanced C. In both languages, you give both sides (C, some half-assed SmallTalk implementation) equal time, regardless of which is actually any good.

    Fair and Balanced C is the version that includes Geraldo Rivera's implementation of Python.

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  5. Re:Hilarity by dunezone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Never would happen, but that doesn't stop them from putting extra CPU intensive Loops in the Apple builds of the software.

  6. Re:Hilarity by slimjim8094 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which, considering most of the complaints against Gimp are about its user interface, sounds right up Apple's alley.

    But when has Apple ever taken an open-source project, cleaned it up with bugfixes and lots of other improvements, and put a proprietary wrapper around it for ease-of-use?

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  7. Re:Hilarity by alexo · · Score: 3, Funny

    But when has Apple ever taken an open-source project, cleaned it up with bugfixes and lots of other improvements, and put a proprietary wrapper around it for ease-of-use?

    Samba? Webkit? CUPS?

    iWhoosh...