Jeez...it's *three* devices, and you *do* have a choice... You're annoyed because you're being shut out of a market you want to be in, but your arguments as to why you should be allowed into that market are specious.
If you buy an iPod/Pad/Phone, you buy it as is, knowing what it can and can't do. It can't do Flash. If you don't like that, don't buy the device, it's really very simple. If you want to hack it to make it capable of running Flash, then sure, go ahead, no-one is going to sue you. You might not be able to claim on your warranty or update the OS once you do that but, yes, it's your choice if you want to go that way. Most people don't because most people can actually live without Flash, believe it or not. If you want to develop for the iP*, then learn objective C or use HTML5/Javascript. If you don't then don't. Again, it's a simple choice you can make. Technologies change, sometimes their fortunes rise and sometimes they fall. Flash has been the undisputed winner in the RIA wars up till now. Jobs is betting the future of the iP* platform on HTML5. Maybe he's wrong about it, but maybe he isn't. Time will tell. Guy On 03/05/2010, at 8:22 AM, Laurence wrote: > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Amy" <amyblankens...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "mitek17" <mitek17@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Seth Caldwell" <wiz@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Steve is employing several tactics used by politicians. The iphone is > > > > not > > > > "open". > > > > > > iPhone is a device, not a technology. Technology should be open, device & > > > software could be proprietary. Steve stresses it particularly, please > > > read Job's message more throroughly. > > > > > > > > > I hope that the pressure from Jobs will finally make Adobe get cracking. > > > > Get cracking at what? Steve Jobs is on record as saying that no matter what > > Adobe does with the player, the iPhone and iTampon won't support it. > > > > -Amy > > Frankly, I figured all this flap over Flash was because they wanted to try to > force Adobe to make Flash-player open-source... And now you're saying that > even if Adobe does that, they still won't allow Flash on their devices? > That's stupid and stubborn of Jobs... > > And besides, if I own a device (I don't own any Apple devices, but if I did) > I should be allowed to run whatever software I want to on it. It's MY device, > not his. I own it, not him -- if he wants to give me one, and pay the monthly > service for it, then he can tell me what I can run on it. Only then. > Basically what Jobs is doing is screwing himself out of any potential > business that I would ever give him. (For the project I'm working on now, we > had plans to purchase about 50 iPads to use on-site. That's not gonna happen > now... Glad doin' business with you, Steve -- we'll be buying Google or Dell > tablets when they are available.) > > And it also pisses me off that everyone talks about video on Flash, as if > that's the only thing it does. Jobs is singlehandedly ruining OUR jobs as > Flex developers. That's really what it boils down to -- he's trying to put us > out of business. We already can't write apps for Apple's portable devices -- > and when he cuts off Flash support in OSX, there goes every Mac in the world. > Thanks for ruining my job, Steve. Bastard. > > Laurence MacNeill > Mableton, Georgia, USA > >
