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Open Letter to Steve Jobs -- Apple Flash Back
bob:
Have used one of those platforms where adobe absolutely refused to do a SIMPLE port of flash, I say, good riddance to it. I don't care about any attributions of Jobs motives. To be unable to use lots of websites in any meaningful way because of one companies closed policies, well they can just take a flying leap. Silverlight and Quicktime can join flash in the flying leap. Fortunately it seems that exclusive content served by Silverlight has pretty much vanished from the sites I frequent.
In a similar vein, it's great Firefox has put a lot of hurt on the tendencies of many websites to do I.E. only.
gappie:
they have forgotten where the letters UI stand for...
Mr ChriZ:
--- Quote ---I agree with you completely on this point. The closed App Store model is a monster and is dangerous to the future of software development. I'd say it is even MORE dangerous than the x86 monopoly ever was.
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This I completely agree with. I hope Android offers a good alternative and developers flock to it.
I'm not a fan of flash. It always seemed a very messy way of developing to me.
Technically I think Silverlight comparatively looks far more pleasant, and is rapidly becoming more competent to.
I suspect however HTML5 will soon finish off both of them as it's the only thing that's likely to make it into all browsers, and content delivery will chose the winner.
glynor:
--- Quote from: Mr ChriZ on April 30, 2010, 04:58:59 pm ---This I completely agree with. I hope Android offers a good alternative and developers flock to it.
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Agreed, though I'm skeptical. Android has a serious problem with product segmentation, and so far Google hasn't done very much at all to address it. As a developer, you are forced to code either to the lowest common denominator or to each and every different handset that comes out. Whereas on iPhone OS, I can write my code once and it will work on every iPhone ever released so far. That won't last forever (looks like iPhone OS 4.0 will be a line in the sand for the original model), but 4+ years of device compatibility is a far-cry from the absolute mess that is the Android software ecosystem.
There was an interesting segment on the Engadget Podcast about a month ago, where they had the developers who wrote their mobile "Apps" for them on the show, and they briefly discussed with them the differences between the platforms. They said that writing the Engadget software for Android took literally three times the man-hours that writing the software for all of the other mobile platforms they did combined (iPhone, WebOS, and Blackberry). On top of that, they complained Android app was substantially limited in design and functionality because they had to write it assuming only a minimum of hardware and OS support (they basically designed for the G1 on Android 1.6). That was their only choice, because the Android marketplace is so horribly fragmented.
That's the major issue that is holding me back from going with an Android phone this summer when I replace my iPhone 3G, and it is the major thing I'm worried about with a potential Android tablet. I bought my iPhone 3G a couple of months after they were released, and I will still get iPhone OS 4.0, for free, immediately upon release (or pretty close) two years later. I couldn't even say the same thing about the Motorola Droid phone two months later, and each Android revision seems to make it worse.
If it is a pocket computer, then it is a pocket computer, and I want a platform. The old cell-phone model of upgrading the handset to get new software features is not acceptable. I don't have the money to upgrade my phone every couple of months (and I don't get them free like the editors of the gadget blogs). It needs to be fully supported at least for the length of my contract (2 years). If Google somehow manages to set some strict hardware standards, and fixes the segmentation problem, then I think they'll be a viable iPhone competitor (and they'll absolutely get me as a user). Until then, though, I'm not interested.
JimH:
Adobe Employees Throw iPhones in SF Bay (maybe)
--- Quote ---Adobe confirmed Thursday that it plans to demonstrate a version of Flash for Google's Android software in May at the Google I/O conference, in responding to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' criticism of Flash in an open letter. And the company wants to make sure its employees use those phones: it's preparing to give away Android phones running Flash to employees, according to three sources familiar with the plan.
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