One thing I really don’t understand is why Apple doesn’t give their users the option. Aside from that – why would Apple’s latest “unveiling” talk about how iPhone/iPad app developers are now encouraged to give away their apps for free – only to make any revenue on in app advertisements via iAd. FUCK THAT. I feel strongly that if an app is worth anything to me – I should be paying for that. Ads that appear in the apps that I want to use sounds absolutely-effing-atrocious. Advertisements are the worst fucking thing on this planet. Also – most ads, currently are served using Flash. HMMMMMMMMM…………………………………………..

You’re all a bunch of retards. Steve Jobs – you’ve made some great products but I’m not willing to choke on your cock. Seriously. I created the universe.

Thanks.

he’s only answering the the internets backlash to apple products and flash, you dont like it?, you dont have to… but his stance on the subject is there for you to constantly bicker about….

i love watching you all play straight into steves marketing hands, see vanhousens comments above :D

have fun…

On the mobile platform, it still doesn’t exist. What’s there is a truncated version that doesn’t play the stuff you need. The infamous 10.1 for mobile is still vaporware, after 3 years of the iPhone. Will it ever appear? Will the other platforms support it? Will it work very well, without destroying the battery? Or is it like the Microsoft Courier, or the HP Windows 7 tablet, vaporware, intended to divert attention from the iPad launch, but never to see the light of day?

Anybody who doesn’t understand why Apple bans Flash apps should look at the last ten years of Adobe and Apple. When OS X was announced, they needed the big guys to write apps for it, and provided the Carbon interface to link their past code with the present. It also made Photoshop slow and buggy. Now, 9 years later, Adobe finally deigns to write the apps for CS5 in Cocoa, 64-bit. Thank you. So, when Apple’s market was small, they had to placate. They don’t have to take that anymore, with 85 million iPhones out there.

An app written with another interface cannot possibly give the user the same experience on a mobile platform. When Apple decides to change a processor or the visual interface, how long would Adobe take to adapt, especially if it meant making a version with a feature that wouldn’t work with the latest Blackberry or Android phone?

Sony announces that they are discontinuing production of the floppy disk.

From Adobe, dateline 2014:

Adobe is discontinuing the development of Mobile Flash, and announcing “Product X,” their designer tool for HTML 5 images, movies and vector animation. Adobe, which once owned the market for web animation and video, has sunk very quickly, even after they put their Adobe Flash application open source last year.

“Open source, closed source, it doesn’t matter. Flash is a pig,” said the Norwegian developer who had released several versions of the open source project, “Flashbang.”

- H264 (and AAC) is not open
- Apple’s own programs took a long time to get ported to Cocoa & 64-bit
- Flash-created iPhone binaries do not necessarily kill battery life or otherwise misbehave (there are example apps created with CS5 in the App Store at this very moment; test them yourself)
- In the case of games, developers simply don’t care about having access to low-level APIs (Flash devs are used to working in a browser sandbox for example)
- Flash-created binaries would be subject to the same restrictions (no private APIs, etc) as regular apps.
- The CS5 iPhone app compilation feature requires absolutely no additional work on Apple’s part; it would have been a freebie of a million new app developers, all subject to the same Apple-takes-30%-profit scheme
- As for banning unsigned apps to “protect the children” (an earlier argument from Jobs), your kid can just open a porn site in Safari or chat with a child predator on AIM
- Jobs claims the iPhone uses open standards but really the iPhone itself DOES NOT use open standards. SAFARI the WEB BROWSER does. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and H264 cannot legally be used (nor can any common scripting language) to create native iPhone apps, and instead are limited to web pages. Further, apps are locked into the App Store and iTunes, and are under Apple’s complete control. A Mac and a yearly fee are required to use Apple’s proprietary iPhone developer tools

Apples products are 100% proprietary. They are only available from Apple, and Apple has sole authority as to their future enhancement, pricing, etc. While Apple products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Apple and available only from Apple. By almost any definition, it is a closed system.

funny ain’t it …