From ARS Technica: Apple takes aim at Adobe… or Android?
From Daring Fireball: Why Apple Changed Section 3.3.1
Well this is fun. What Apple just did was change their licensing to preclude use of third party code generation from being used to create Apps for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Which means REAL Apple iPhone OS developers get REAL work and script kiddies simply buying a copy of Adobe CS5 thinking they would quickly port their Flash stuff into Android and Apple iPhone OSes are gonna be crying and gnashing their teeth.
I like Daring Fireball’s clear example of why Apple did this…
Consider, for one example, Amazon’s Kindle clients for iPhone OS and Mac OS X. The iPhone OS Kindle app is excellent, a worthy rival in terms of experience to Apple’s own iBooks. The Mac Kindle app is a turd that doesn’t look, feel, or behave like a real Mac app. The iPhone OS Kindle app is a native iPhone app, written in Cocoa Touch. The Mac Kindle app was produced using the cross-platform Qt toolkit.
See that was easy to understand for all you eBook readers out there. Just go look at the Kindle Apps yourself and come to a conclusion if this decision was a good one. In my opinion this simply means LESS JUNK APPS. Because you can’t just buy your way easy peasy into the game. You have to either know how to code for Apple iPhone OS or you stay out of the Apple App Store.
So all the junk can stay over in the Android Market Place which as I pointed out already is becoming a rich hackers “OPEN” environment for customers to be ripped off and taken for a fools ride. They forgot to show the Droid’s arm reaching into your pocket to take your credit card numbers on that TV commercial.
Do not buy into the Apple hate game here. Adobe has had more than enough time and money to have created a compiler that matched Apple’s requirements for implementation in their OS. BUT they do not want to play, they want to dictate, they want to sneak their own proprietary APIs into products, even if they had no investment in the OS or it’s security or the hardware or the customer’s experience. Dirty code generation is easy as any dufus pushing a button but it is also unfortunately dirty.
This is pure Internet Theater here folks as shown Lee Brimelow ~ Adobe’s “Platform Evangelist” here at Mac Rumors: Fallout From Apple’s Exclusion of Flash-to-iPhone Export Continues
Brimelow notes that he has decided to boycott Apple products “until there is a leadership change over there” and states in no uncertain terms how he feels about the situation.
Now let me put aside my role as an official representative of Adobe for a moment as I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple.
Yeah now there is your proof Adobe and their script-kiddy customers are a professional company. Boohoo!
Flash is dead and they killed it, long live non-proprietary non-Adobe Owned HTML5!
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