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"For example, when Apple introduced in iPhone OS 3.2 the new split views that the iPad uses extensively when rotating your screen, that functionality would have

• bonaldi 16y ago
  Yes. All that link shows is the same app running on lots of different screen sizes, with no concessions to the local device beyond resizing the same layout. It's lowest-common-denominator in action, really. The iPad split views are completely different: when the device is in landscape mode two separate views are side-by-side, when it is moved to portrait one view becomes main and the other hides under a button. If you're using UIKit it does all this for you, for free. But if a Flash dev wanted it, they'd have to roll their own, or wait for CS6, when Adobe might implement it for them. Either way, take up of the new interface would be massively delayed while Apple waited for Adobe. Apple's done with waiting for Adobe.