Comments on: Apple versus developers – this time it’s personal

By: CareyAshley

CareyAshley — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:04:30 +0000

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By: Audas

Audas — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:13 +0000

adobe is suing.

By: Graham Phillips

Graham Phillips — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:59:31 +0000

Yes this is bad from Apple, but Adobe’s business analysts should have forseen this scenario and planned for it. Rather than throwing thir cross-compiler resources at the iPhone feature Adobe could have continued developing Alchemy to give us a finished product with Flash CS5. Alchemy continues to languish as a beta on labs, when it has such great potential.

By: klauzz

klauzz — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:03:27 +0000

Developers! We can change the course of this battle!
HP Slate and HTC HD2 are in my wishlist.

By: prafuitu

prafuitu — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:48:02 +0000

There go the Cupertino Comment SPAM …zombies! (Borrowed and adapted from here: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 )

By: skierpage

skierpage — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:47:23 +0000

@Gregir, thanks for pointing out the truth.

The alternative to both companies’ coercive agendas is the open web. Keep making great web sites and in a few years we’ll laugh at the quaint idea of “apps” and “app stores” for particular hardware. In the meantime make a Cocoa app that just creates a UIWebView to your site’s URL for Apple fans that are slow on the uptake.

By: Gregir

Gregir — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:19:56 +0000

Wow, what a bunch of sour grapes and venom. I’m a Flash developer myself, but I fail to see the problem, aside from having to learn something new. I can’t make money developing iPhone/iPad apps with Flash. So what?! Six months ago, I didn’t expect to be able to anyway!

You can develop for iPhone OS in three different, non-proprietary languages (Objective-C, C and C++) and one non-proprietary scripting language (JavaScript). Sad that our language of choice (ActionScript) isn’t on the list? Boo-hoo. Learn another language, if you call yourself a real developer. Don’t like that you have to have a Mac? Boo-hoo. A company is trying to make money by having you work via their technology to develop for their technology. How unprecedented and unreasonable!

Adobe is no different from Apple…or Microsoft etc. They want to make money by getting everyone possible to use their tools. Adobe can call it the “Open” screen project all they want, it’s still an initiative to sell as many Adobe products as possible. It’s not a philanthropic free-for-all to spread goodwill.

Every developer I’ve ever respected looked at a platform, looked at the best tool for the job, and either used it, learned to use it, or moved on. I’ve never seen anything ground-breaking, compelling or substantial that was created through a shortcut, cross-compile or hack.

By: Another iBrick in the Apple Wall » Just Another Rant

Another iBrick in the Apple Wall » Just Another Rant — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:18:14 +0000

[...] are already a bunch of posts and commentary on the Apple SDK update prohibiting applications that link to Documented APIs through an [...]

By: prafuitu

prafuitu — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:16:23 +0000

Here’s another nice one from Apple: they have removed the blue lego icon that was displayed where the Flash movies should have been. This would make it look as if the site itself was broken, hidding the fact that the device is unable to show the content.
Fortunetly, as a statement, Grant Skinner released a blueLego edition of SWFObject! :))
http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/04/return_of_the_b.html

By: Charles Maney

Charles Maney — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:39:15 +0000

@prafuitu
This would certainly explain why Jobs’ singled out Google and Adobe during his Town Hall meeting. MS needs Apple in some respect to fend off anti-trust issues. However, I don’t really think Google does. As you say, the next few months will be exciting. I just hope that we, the developers, don’t end up paying the price.