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Open Letter to Steve Jobs -- Apple Flash Back
JimH:
Apple has forbidden use of Flash or Flash derived apps on the Touch, the iPhone and iPad. Adobe complained a little last week, so yesterday Steve Jobs wrote an open letter about Adobe.
You can read what Steve said, but his letter had the following six points (in bold):
Adobe isn't "open". Adobe is "proprietary".
ha ha
Apple is the Queen of Proprietary. They've not only kept Adobe off their new little computers, but they do everything they can to keep other competitors (like JRiver) away from their shiny little computers. It isn't nice to sell someone a computer but forbid them from using it with their favorite media player.
Flash isn't a standard. H264 is a better choice.
Flash is everywhere. Almost all machines have it installed. Our web pages have used Flash for at least five years. We've had exactly two complaints about it.
Flash is a standard, just as iPods are a standard. It's called a "de facto" standard, not one made up by a committtee of industrial experts from very large companies. Flash is a "People's" standard. H264 may be better, but that doesn't make it the exclusive choice of the customer.
"Flash is the number one reason Macs crash."
Oh brother.
Steve. Macs crash? Really? I don't know that. I use a Windows PC. It doesn't crash. I've never seen Flash crash Windows. I've never heard of it. I talk to 20 or 30 computer users every day, and I've done so for almost three decades. Flash works. But I didn't know that Flash caused Macs to crash. That's good to know.
Battery Life
Hmmm.
I guess that would be more of a problem for my phone if it wouldn't accept a spare battery. Oh, wait, Apple doesn't believe a user can change a battery. I forgot they're embedded in the device. Dead battery. Return phone to Apple. Bad Flash.
Touch
Flash doesn't work well with Apple's touch screens. Bad Flash. Bad Apple. Figure it out, Steve. You've got Adobe's attention now. Personally, I don't like touching the screen when the movie rolls. I'd use the escape button, but wait, AppleGear doesn't use buttons, does it. How about a multi-purpose home button that emulates escape if you click three times short, three times long, then three times short again?
Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.
Steve. It's a computer. Developers like to write apps for computers. Flash has a lot of developers.
But I can see your point about Apple being "open" and Adobe being "proprietary". Sort of. From your point of view, I guess. Not really.
It's not nice, Steve. You know it isn't. Give Adobe a call and tell them you're sorry you said all those mean things. They still love you. You'll feel better about yourself tomorrow.
Diverdown1964:
Brilliant. I don't even particularly like Flash myself, but Apple's hypocrisy is galling.
neFAST:
How can I "dig" that? There used to be a button on the board, no?
Stonehedge:
I agree. Too bad that SJ has gone .....On Toms Hardware there are suggestions of drug use.
I use a Mac mini and think that it is nice small computer with a good UNIX implementation. But I donīt like if Apple want to decide for me.
I also use Windows computers and Linux so there are alternatives.
MrC:
this belongs in the "Music, Movies, Politics, and Other Cheap Thrills" forum...
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