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Steve Jobs Publishes Some "Thoughts On Flash"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what's-under-that-turtleneck dept.

teh31337one writes "Steve Jobs just posted an open letter of sorts explaining Apple's position on Flash, going back to his company's long history with Adobe and expounding upon six main points of why he thinks Flash is wrong for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally comes up, along with a few reasons you might not expect. He concludes in saying that 'Flash was created during the PC era — for PCs and mice.'" Tacky that his first point is that Flash is proprietary, when Apple restricts the apps that can be installed on the phone. Pot, meet kettle.

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  1. hypocrite by coniferous · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    This whole thing is riddled with hypocrisies. I mean, Steve is being a real douche here.. Even more then usual.

    If they want to promote open standards, they should try not to look so fucking two-faced about it.

  2. Like SMS? by Mekkah · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't care if HE doesn't think it's the right product. I want it, and everyone uses it. Make it work dick, you said similar shit about text/pic messages. Thanks for making me wait to send pic's for years.

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    ~Mekkah
  3. Re:proprietary and apple by poetmatt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    wha? Your definition is not correct. BSD is "open source" but people can fork it proprietary. "The source code you release cannot be proprietary" is not all open source, again, BSD goes around this. Somehow they think it's better to let people take their own code and make it proprietary. Apple loves this. Apple can take a BSD programmer's code, and claim it as their own.

    What you're talking about is "free and open source" commonly known as GPLv3.

    note: I hate BSD, but I'm just saying that your definition and that most people know of open source are *not* aligned with BSD nor with GPL.