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in a way that invalidates an Adobe product a few days before that Adobe product is set to launch. You can look at it this way: Adobe's product would invalida

in a way that invalidates an Adobe product a few days before that Adobe product is set to launch. You can look at it this way: Adobe's product would invalidate Apple's product it is about to launch: iPhone OS 4 (and iPhone experience in general). I think Jason Snell put it rather well: http://www.macworld.com/article/150539/2010/04/apple_world.html http://www.macworld.com/article/150539/2010/04/apple_world.h...

pyre 17y ago
> Adobe's product would invalidate Apple's product it is about to launch: iPhone OS 4 Adobe can't 'invalidate' iPhone OS 4 unless you're claiming that Flash CS5's Flash-to-iPhone cross-compiler prevents developers from using Apple's own development environment. > (and iPhone experience in general). You can't 'invalidate' the iPhone experience. If everything about the iPhone is so micro-managed by Apple to be perfectly what they want, then explain to me how 'fart apps' fit into Steve Jobs' grand plan for the iPhone. People don't need Flash CS5 to create crappy apps for the iPhone. In any case, I thought that the AppStore approval process was there to keep out crappy apps. Apple is the gatekeeper for all apps that are allowed in to the walled garden, so why should they care how the app is created so long as it meets their standards? > From your link: Apple doesn’t want Flash-created apps on the App Store for a simple reason: It reduces the iPhone to a lowest-common denominator platform, and at that point Apple loses all control over the iPhone OS experience. This is a false statement. Apple has supreme ultimate control over the iPhoneOS experience. Every application that is allowed to run on the iPhoneOS has to be approved by Apple through their AppStore approval process. It's already been proven that 3rd-party developer tools like MonoTouch can work. 10 of the top 100 apps on the AppStore were built with MonoTouch, and there are hundreds of other apps approved by Apple that are on the AppStore as well. The idea that allowing developers to step outside of Apple's ivory tower of developer tools to use something else is a guarantee of lower quality products is a joke.

pyre 17y ago

> Adobe's product would invalidate Apple's product it is about to launch: iPhone OS 4 Adobe can't 'invalidate' iPhone OS 4 unless you're claiming that Flash CS5's Flash-to-iPhone cross-compiler prevents developers from using Apple's own development environment. > (and iPhone experience in general). You can't 'invalidate' the iPhone experience. If everything about the iPhone is so micro-managed by Apple to be perfectly what they want, then explain to me how 'fart apps' fit into Steve Jobs' grand plan for the iPhone. People don't need Flash CS5 to create crappy apps for the iPhone. In any case, I thought that the AppStore approval process was there to keep out crappy apps. Apple is the gatekeeper for all apps that are allowed in to the walled garden, so why should they care how the app is created so long as it meets their standards? > From your link: Apple doesn’t want Flash-created apps on the App Store for a simple reason: It reduces the iPhone to a lowest-common denominator platform, and at that point Apple loses all control over the iPhone OS experience. This is a false statement. Apple has supreme ultimate control over the iPhoneOS experience. Every application that is allowed to run on the iPhoneOS has to be approved by Apple through their AppStore approval process. It's already been proven that 3rd-party developer tools like MonoTouch can work. 10 of the top 100 apps on the AppStore were built with MonoTouch, and there are hundreds of other apps approved by Apple that are on the AppStore as well. The idea that allowing developers to step outside of Apple's ivory tower of developer tools to use something else is a guarantee of lower quality products is a joke.