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Except for that ridiculous moralizing about porn (firstly, the platform should not be designed to censor content and secondly, stopping porn by not having Flash
by zecg 16y ago
Except for that ridiculous moralizing about porn (firstly, the platform should not be designed to censor content and secondly, stopping porn by not having Flash seems stupidly inefficient), Jobs is perfectly right. It's their platform and they can choose what to offer. While not an Apple user, I am nevertheless thoroughly enjoying Adobe's problems - been burned by crappy Flash plugins on Linux and I feel a sane and open wrapper for video is long overdue. Go suck a bag of dicks, Adobe. Your indispensible Flash is getting less so with every effort such as this one.
- buster 16y agoAnd another one that didn't get it. The mails are not about Flash videos on the web. They are about writing cross platform programs that are not running on a flash plugin on the iPhone but are cross compiled to ObjC. The "but developers can choose whether they want to write their programm for iPhone OS or for other platforms"-argument is so ridiculous, it makes me cry. In practice people have no choice but to develop for iPhone OS (because it's the biggest app platform) and then, if money/time/effort allows, write a second app for the rest of the world. And i think, as a developer i can complain and bitch all day about it, even if it won't change something. Of course, Steve can do whatever he likes with the platform. If developers like that is another question.