Comments on: 10-Q Watch: Adobe Admits Apple’s Anti-Flash Strategy Could Be Damaging

By: ThomasN

ThomasN — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:39:09 +0000

Imagine you wanted to buy the latest Cooking Utensil on the market only to be told by the Manufacturer that you can only prepare one kind of dish using only one kind of ingredient. And supporting this nonsensical limit is a minority consensus of users who, because they’ve never learned to prepare a variety of decent dishes or had one incident of food poisoning decides the whole world should stick to eating gruel.

This the same company who decided that the rights to your iTunes purchases are limited to five apple format players?

As someone who makes his living by designing and developing for both non-flash (PHP, MySQL) and flash sites (by Flash, I don’t mean annoying intros..but interactive maps, educational games and quizzes), Steve Job’s monopolistic, socialistic, anti-adobe stance is an affront to my creative and economic freedom. [This comment was made from a Mac notebook ...that supports Flash]

By: hdc77494

hdc77494 — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 06:40:58 +0000

I have an IPhone, but won’t buy an IPad because of Apple’s position on Flash. I’ve always marveled at Apple’s ability to paint Microsoft as the bad guy while Apple runs a completely closed system. Anybody can connect to Microsoft, and they understand the value of a mostly open marketplace. Apple is run like a Soviet dictatorship, but lefties love them.

By: North

North — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:38:15 +0000

I think it is AWESOME! Ever since Adobe got lazy with Flash (between 9 and 10) I hate using it. I remember calling them on an error with IE7 and they continued to say it was my platform…. low and behold they finally admitted the program was writing in a protected area of the memory… Long story short I dont trust Flash and would love to see this browser add-on become a memory.

By: pfn

pfn — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:43:57 +0000

Apple laid the pimp hand to Adobe. I’m going to learn HTML 5–NOW!
I’ve been using Flash since it was FutureSplash. I was into Flash waaaay
back in the day, I even wrote a Flash book:

http://www.bigwebmaster.com/255.html

It’s just time to move on. I will be using Flash to do drawings, just like I did in 1997.
IMHO, it’s midnight and flash is turning into a pumpkin. RealAudio/Visual Basic/ColdFusion/PowerBuilder/pop.com/etc… Flash is next.

By: Staci D. Kramer

Staci D. Kramer — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:14:14 +0000

@seanthorpe I’ve thought for a long time that people would rebel if you
subbed the word “Microsoft” for some of Apple’s tactics. (Google, too.)

By: seanthorpe

seanthorpe — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:04:36 +0000

So when will we all start acknowledging that Apple’s tactics are as helpful to web application development as Microsoft’s IE6? And imagine if Microsoft takes the same tactic with Win Phone 7.

By: Tom Wood

Tom Wood — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:34:16 +0000

For those of us who just want to publish content in Flash and not get too deep into development, this is causing a real pain. I do a simple slideshow style webcomic that Flash is perfect for production. But I’m trying to get other websites to carry it, and I can already hear the ‘does it run on iPad?’ questions coming. For me, and probably for many artist/publishers, it’s simply not feasible to republish in a second platform just to satisfy Apple’s greed. Bleah.

http://minigiggles.com