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Apple's Hiring of Kevin Lynch Questioned Amid Concerns Over His Staunch Defense of Flash
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Wrong. Victoria Police warned about trusting any mapping service. The Mildura incident was one, but Victoria Police also warned about using Google maps as well.
Again, it was local police, not the Australian government, and it was Google maps as well. Nobody used the term "deadly" either, although in the Google maps case it was said that there were "some near fatal incidents". Still, nothing like using manufactured hyperbole to troll a website I suppose.
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Another wrong assertion. The ATO has no flash content at all, and to do your tax online, you have to download and install a windows only program, i.e.: not for OSX or Linux. No flash content there either. What other lies would you like tested here? BTW, haven't needed flash for 3 years now. Only porn sites or juvenile gamer sites use flash. Which one do you go to?
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By "powerful" you mean power hogging right? Coz that it was, chewing up CPU by up to as much as 80% on Macs and even worse on Linux. Adobe showed such contempt for Linux users, it employed one coder, ONE!!! for Linux flash player.
Mobile Flash support was dropped because it was rubbish, that's all Adobe know what to do. If it were THAT great, wouldn't it be on all those shinny new android devices we keep hearing about here?
Flash content may have changed in the last 20 years, but flash, itself, has not. Using a flash wrapper to stream video content, via hardware acceleration (turning your cpu into a furnace) IS 20 year old technology. Web content doesn't need hardware acceleration to run. Bad web plugins do. Don't pat adobe on the back for being so arrogant and lazy. It doesn't help us, the users. But, its moot now. Flash will be gone soon enough. Come into the 21 century. Adobe might follow you.
I'm sure he means crash Safari. Flash will only crash the browser, not the system. All applications are sandbox from the system. But as of Safari version 5, it won't crash, it will give an alert stating that flash has crashed, Safari will disable the plugin, then you'll have to restart Safari to run flash again. Why a plugin needs, or even deserves such resources is just mind blowing. So last century thinking. For what? Video streaming?
People naturally tend to support things that are supported by 100% of the market. When that was Flash it was Flash and when it is HTML5 it will be HTML5.
Why does Webkit support hardware acceleration then?
I agree.
Why wouldn't you try to defend your market leading horse business,
while you are secretly developing a car?
It's the clever thing to do.
All A players? Please...
Apple has it's share of "bozos", just like every other giant corporation. Its not whether everyone you hire is "A" player, its whether you can get the best out of everyone you hire. Many people that appeared to be "A" players at Apple, left and were "B" or "C" players in other organizations because by themselves they could not overcome the inherent dysfunction and work as effectively as they could at Apple.
Of course Apple also has many "A" players, and they do what they can to keep them, and the organization is tilted in such a way that their "A" players can affect the corporate work environment in positive ways.
Apple has it's share of "bozos", just like every other giant corporation. Its not whether everyone you hire is "A" player, its whether you can get the best out of everyone you hire. Many people that appeared to be "A" players at Apple, left and were "B" or "C" players in other organizations because by themselves they could not overcome the inherent dysfunction and work as effectively as they could at Apple.
Of course Apple also has many "A" players, and they do what they can to keep them, and the organization is tilted in such a way that their "A" players can affect the corporate work environment in positive ways.
Let's first get the facts straight
Okay, I'm not expecting to settle this discussion, but let's at least get a few facts straight.
Of course the term Flash is confusing. It is not a programming language. Duh, it's a platform, the development IDE or a player, depending on the context.
ActionScript3 is the language that you could compare to Objective-C. But if you really think it's a bastardized version of Javascript, I kinda know enough... You probably looked at Flash 10 years ago when people made shape tweens and site intros.
Anyway, as I said, let's just get some facts straight. I know this discussion is kinda old, but if you are working in new media and development as I am, I'm sure you don't mind learning a few new facts.
Okay, I'm not expecting to settle this discussion, but let's at least get a few facts straight.
Of course the term Flash is confusing. It is not a programming language. Duh, it's a platform, the development IDE or a player, depending on the context.
ActionScript3 is the language that you could compare to Objective-C. But if you really think it's a bastardized version of Javascript, I kinda know enough... You probably looked at Flash 10 years ago when people made shape tweens and site intros.
AS3 is a mature, fully typed language like Java. It follows the ECMAScript standard (which is why it looks like JS to you) and a syntax most common amongst many programming languages.
Objective-C is the odd one here with a flat folder structure, square bracket function calls, mixins of C++ and NextStep prefixes for even the most common datatypes like NSString.
I know hundreds of developers and nobody used the Flash IDE for development. They use Eclipse or IntelliJ, tools that are used for other languages too, including (drumroll) Objective-C (AppCode).
Flash isn't great for mobile and multi-touch. Fair enough. There's still tons of games and apps in the AppStore that were coded in Flash. Plenty of reasons for that, including better frame based animation and cross-platform compilation.
Anyway, as I said, let's just get some facts straight. I know this discussion is kinda old, but if you are working in new media and development as I am, I'm sure you don't mind learning a few new facts.
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Okay, I'm not expecting to settle this discussion, but let's at least get a few facts straight.
Of course the term Flash is confusing. It is not a programming language. Duh, it's a platform, the development IDE or a player, depending on the context.
ActionScript3 is the language that you could compare to Objective-C. But if you really think it's a bastardized version of Javascript, I kinda know enough... You probably looked at Flash 10 years ago when people made shape tweens and site intros.
AS3 is a mature, fully typed language like Java. It follows the ECMAScript standard (which is why it looks like JS to you) and a syntax most common amongst many programming languages.
Objective-C is the odd one here with a flat folder structure, square bracket function calls, mixins of C++ and NextStep prefixes for even the most common datatypes like NSString.
I know hundreds of developers and nobody used the Flash IDE for development. They use Eclipse or IntelliJ, tools that are used for other languages too, including (drumroll) Objective-C (AppCode).
Flash isn't great for mobile and multi-touch. Fair enough. There's still tons of games and apps in the AppStore that were coded in Flash. Plenty of reasons for that, including better frame based animation and cross-platform compilation.
Anyway, as I said, let's just get some facts straight. I know this discussion is kinda old, but if you are working in new media and development as I am, I'm sure you don't mind learning a few new facts.
Bravo - thank you for informing the Apple fanatics out there (who don't have a clue about Flash beyond their experience as a 'player') that Flash is actually a platform, product family name, a media playing app, etc. Is it confusing? Certainly. But it's definitely not a POS that many fanatics love to believe just because SJ waged war against it.
The anti-Lynch comments on here, by folks who have never met him personally or professionally, show rather bad behavior. It's this kind of over-the-top unjustified judgement that makes me cringe. As a long time Apple user (on iOS and OS X devices), I really wish there were a way to filter out the fanatics vs. those who actually have thoughtful, educated, and rational opinions.
Okay?
But aren't we talking about Adobe?http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/19/adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-resigns/#MQ1FEedsOEZl8O4v.99
Even Tim Cook is starting to get contested among Apple workers
http://www.glassdoor.com/50-Highest-Rated-CEOs.htm
http://www.glassdoor.com/50-Highest-Rated-CEOs.htm
I couldn't agree more. Adobe product quality, sales, and innovation have all plummeted as a result of Lynch's "leadership" at Adobe. ADBE stock hasn't moved in 8 YEARS as a result. As many at Adobe will tell you, Macromedia bought Adobe with Adobe's own money. Putting someone like that in a leadership position at Apple signifies the beginning of the end for Apple.
It wasn't so much that Flash was bad. It was more the fact that trying to cram a piece of software into a web browser was a bad experience. Flash as a development language and platform is very powerful and can now almost equal objective c in terms of performance. Flash can now run all graphics and 3D content 100% on the gpu.
Now that Flash has shifted gears to app development it is finally where it was always meant to be. Before mobile devices however the web was the only decent delivery option. As a developer I am glad I don't have to shoehorn my custom applications into a webpage and can now have a decent delivery method as a stand alone app.
I still stand by the fact that most of the issues people hate about bad Flash performance and clunky user experiences will happen regardless of the technology used in the browser. We will always see the same horrendous amateur sad excuses for programming methods on the web regardless of which technology is used. Flash itself wasn't the problem but the fact that anybody with no programming background could use it and they abused the heck out of it. In the right skilled hands Flash can be a full fledged programming language.
Besides if Apple was smart they would create an easier development environment to create apps. Who better to lead that effort then somebody in charge of Flash at Adobe. Think iWeb for apps but with an actual development language. There are already tools such as Flash, Corona and others that are light years easier to create native apps that are slowly taking away the relevance of developing in an objective c environment which costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time and talent.
Now that Flash has shifted gears to app development it is finally where it was always meant to be. Before mobile devices however the web was the only decent delivery option. As a developer I am glad I don't have to shoehorn my custom applications into a webpage and can now have a decent delivery method as a stand alone app.
I still stand by the fact that most of the issues people hate about bad Flash performance and clunky user experiences will happen regardless of the technology used in the browser. We will always see the same horrendous amateur sad excuses for programming methods on the web regardless of which technology is used. Flash itself wasn't the problem but the fact that anybody with no programming background could use it and they abused the heck out of it. In the right skilled hands Flash can be a full fledged programming language.
Besides if Apple was smart they would create an easier development environment to create apps. Who better to lead that effort then somebody in charge of Flash at Adobe. Think iWeb for apps but with an actual development language. There are already tools such as Flash, Corona and others that are light years easier to create native apps that are slowly taking away the relevance of developing in an objective c environment which costs a lot of money and takes a lot of time and talent.