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Having been a Flash developer and now an iOS developer, I find most of these opinion pieces to be agenda driven. Apple's camp doesn't care or what to know the g
by tomlin 16y ago
Having been a Flash developer and now an iOS developer, I find most of these opinion pieces to be agenda driven. Apple's camp doesn't care or what to know the gritty facts pro-Adobe, and pro-Adobe/Flash users think Steve Jobs is a dictator.
No matter what side you sit on, make sure your argument is beyond skin-deep. It's common to see an Apple zealot post about Flash as a proprietary sand trap, while they are essentially using entirely proprietary, closed software to do so. The Flash camp isn't much better, claiming a mishmash of mobile efforts as ready to ship - and we've yet to see something stable come forth.
- bradleyland 16y agoYou're spot on there. I feel like the odd-man-out in a lot of Apple/Flash discussions. I understand the reasons why Apple doesn't want Flash on their devices, but I see the hypocrisy in the "open" arguments. On the flip side of the coin, I'm not crazy about Flash, but I do miss being able to view Flash-based websites. I think it's a bit disingenuous of the author to suggest he never encounters this problem. I browse the web a lot on my iPad. We've been shopping furniture over the last couple of weeks, and IKEA's website uses Flash. They have an iOS app, but it's formatted for the iPhone, thus I am unable to shop IKEA furniture on my iPad. Boooooo :(