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>Apple does not deny developers to use high quality technologies for its platforms, apart of the private API, but that's another matter. No, I'm pretty sure th

>Apple does not deny developers to use high quality technologies for its platforms, apart of the private API, but that's another matter. No, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the matter. Only Apple apps can multitask. It's an understandable design decision, but it's certainly a parallel. (And to be completely fair it's changing, but you're being intellectually dishonest.)

DeusExMachina 16y ago
Yes, this is a point I wasn't thinking about. But in iPhone OS 4 multitasking is coming and is similar to the android one. But I think (my personal opinion, not backed by any data) that this was a decision based on technical matters. From the quoted passage it seems that Adobe was keeping the technology for itself to outpace competition. I don't think this applies to Apple using multitasking while developers can't.
- vetinari 16y ago
  It is similar to Android in the sense, that it works using the same principles. It is not similar in the sense, that on iPhone you have some specific usage scenarios you can use with multitasking. On Android, it is open-ended, you can multitask for any reason you come up.
isleyaardvark 16y ago
No, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the matter. Only Apple apps can multitask. But that's iPhone apps, they were never intended or claimed to be truly open. Adobe is claiming they "openly published the specification" to PostScript, but they didn't. Compare that to a truly open standard like HTML5. Does Apple have a secret, proprietary API for that?
- vetinari 16y ago
  Of course they published the specification in 80's, it would be difficult to do anything without it, as PostScript is programming language (for a specific niche, but Turing complete). What they didn't publish at the time was Type1, as they wanted to be the gatekeeper for publishing T1 fonts (see similarity to Apple?). It didn't take long and T1 was reverse engineered, despite the obfuscation.

DeusExMachina 16y ago

Yes, this is a point I wasn't thinking about. But in iPhone OS 4 multitasking is coming and is similar to the android one. But I think (my personal opinion, not backed by any data) that this was a decision based on technical matters. From the quoted passage it seems that Adobe was keeping the technology for itself to outpace competition. I don't think this applies to Apple using multitasking while developers can't.

vetinari 16y ago
It is similar to Android in the sense, that it works using the same principles. It is not similar in the sense, that on iPhone you have some specific usage scenarios you can use with multitasking. On Android, it is open-ended, you can multitask for any reason you come up.

isleyaardvark 16y ago

No, I'm pretty sure that's exactly the matter. Only Apple apps can multitask. But that's iPhone apps, they were never intended or claimed to be truly open. Adobe is claiming they "openly published the specification" to PostScript, but they didn't. Compare that to a truly open standard like HTML5. Does Apple have a secret, proprietary API for that?

vetinari 16y ago
Of course they published the specification in 80's, it would be difficult to do anything without it, as PostScript is programming language (for a specific niche, but Turing complete). What they didn't publish at the time was Type1, as they wanted to be the gatekeeper for publishing T1 fonts (see similarity to Apple?). It didn't take long and T1 was reverse engineered, despite the obfuscation.