Please tell us exactly what law Apple is breaking. Since you believe you're such an expert, it should be easy for you to do that. So please tell us the specific law and what sections Apple is violating.
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Please tell us exactly what law Apple is breaking. Since you believe you're such an expert, it should be easy for you to do that. So please tell us the specific law and what sections Apple is violating.
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Ummmmm....
But not with such a weak case; you have to have some reasonable expectation of winning.
MS did a little bit more than that. In their quest to destroy netscape they kept resellers from installing netscape in their builds. No one was asking MS at the time to included Netscape, they were just asking MS not to try to put Dell out of business for installing Netscape in an aftermarket build.
It's a little different, no?
Apple is about to get reemed. If any of you think that Adobe isn't going to file a lawsuit your nuts. They have plenty of ground to stand on, it's predatory what Apple is doing. That's case law. If this were Microsoft everyone here would be singing a different tune. Microsoft has been here and they got screwed. So will Apple.
I think Apple is starting to become the next Microsoft and it might just be about time someone knocks them off their high horse. I love Apple, but man was this a terrible move. Apple's lawyers are definitely already geared up.
Just watch though, when it comes down to a jury they will sympathize with Adobe. Apple needs to either re-interprete that TOS or the best they are going to get in the end is an cute little "Approved by Apple" seal (Sound familiar?). Watch.
I think Apple is starting to become the next Microsoft and it might just be about time someone knocks them off their high horse. I love Apple, but man was this a terrible move. Apple's lawyers are definitely already geared up.
Just watch though, when it comes down to a jury they will sympathize with Adobe. Apple needs to either re-interprete that TOS or the best they are going to get in the end is an cute little "Approved by Apple" seal (Sound familiar?). Watch.
Think this through. This about being locked out of the Appstore.
In Essence Apple is a publisher.
Adobe is like an author suing to published. Publishers can reject authors for ANY reason they see fit.
Have you ever heard of an author suing to get published?
If Adobe did anything so ill conceived, we will be looking back in 10 years at the day that marked the end of Adobe...
In Essence Apple is a publisher.
Adobe is like an author suing to published. Publishers can reject authors for ANY reason they see fit.
Have you ever heard of an author suing to get published?
If Adobe did anything so ill conceived, we will be looking back in 10 years at the day that marked the end of Adobe...
There are those things called LAWS, and even Apple has to obey them. They can run their business any way they want as long as they stick to the rules.
If I remember right, Unity and Appcelerator came out in favor of this change. In this case Adobe is wrong, Apple is acting in the best interest of it customers, its platform, and its business.
Customers won't be subjected to half-assed flash apps that don't fit the platform, and will be protected from OS upgrades that break potentially large numbers of applications. This is similar to Adobe and MS refusing to first upgrade apps to OSX from classic, then refusing to upgrade to x86 from ppc, and then refusing to upgrade to 64-bit. All of these upgrades were made fairly straight forward if you used Apple's dev tools or followed Apple guidelines.
The platform is protected from a 3rd party dictating how it will work. Preventing Apple from adding or removing feature, probably user requested feature. Apple has been there before it retarded the growth and capabilities of OSX for at least 7 years. This also protects the platform from the least common denominator effect. What's the difference between Dell and HP? Nothing, because windows (MS) prevents one from truly differentiating itself. Even if Dell or HP added some cool wizbang widget Windows wouldn't take advantage of it because MS won't make a custom version of its OS or applications.
This all leads to protecting the business by allowing Apple the flexibility and agility within the market to move as it needs to to make money. The goal here isn't to make Adobe or Flash developers money. The goal is to make Apple and Apple's developers money. I know it sucks that flash devs need to learn something new but such is life. If you want cross platform write in HTML 5. Oh wait they'd have to learn that too.
Came here to say this, glad it was covered in the first post. All Apple has to do is show how bad Flash runs and say this is not up to our standards. No court will make Apple run 3rd party software on their hardware.
If those producers had a contract with Ford and were bound in private contract with them? Sure they could.
If Heinz had a contract with McDonalds and were bound in private contract with them? Sure they could.
Yep. You guessed it. Same here. Apple has chosen a closed system. If you play their game, you play by their rules.
Is the Federal Reserve authorized to print fiat paper money with absolutely NO intrinsic value? Nope. But it does it anyway. Do most American's actually owe an income tax? Nope. But they pay it anyway.
It's crazy like that sometimes.
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if apple did not make a single product ever again i don't think i would be very worried. think about it would it really matter?
if adobe ( i cant even bring my self to say it) did not develop again well it would be a travesty adobe are the true pioneers, just look at CS5
go adobe sue them someone need to stop the madness
if apple did not make a single product ever again i don't think i would be very worried. think about it would it really matter?
if adobe ( i cant even bring my self to say it) did not develop again well it would be a travesty adobe are the true pioneers, just look at CS5
go adobe sue them someone need to stop the madness
I wouldn't be surprised if this law suit (if it is true) my be pressured from some of the shareholders of Adobe. There was an article posted here about how Adobe could be losing lots of money because Apple is not letting them play in the (i)market. Thus causing the devaluation of the stock due to poor sales of there product to vendors who use there tools to make flash video's and ads.
There is no law or rule that states you have to run X plug-in on your hardware/software...
Apple doesn't have a monopoly in the cell phone market or the smart phone market.
No offense but you really don't get it! Read up on anti-trust and the Sherman act:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-trust
I don't really know that Adobe could win this, but they do have some valid arguments. It has NOTHING to do with other phone makers or their platforms. It has EVERYTHING to do with Apple's which is majority market share not allowing competition on its development platform.
Adobe is desperate and I love it! I hope this is the last straw for Flash!
It will be VERY interesting to see what happens with this though!
Looks like the "I hope Psystar sues Apple!!11!!" crowd showed up for this one.
Do they still exist?
ADOBE IS DEAD. JUST LIKE MACROMEDIA.
You want a much better one ?
Microsoft allowing Xcode to run on Windows.
Apple's the one restricting Xcode (like 90% of their software - the exceptions being iTunes, Safari, Quicktime, and one other minor app I can't recall) - Microsoft would accept it with open arms - just as Apple accepted the option to run Windows on Mac OSX (it's just an efficient option). Hardware manufacturers like Sony would love to put current releases of the Mac OS on the computers rather than Windows (as they were allowed temporarily in the 90s) but Jobs is the one blocking that from happening these days.
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I think that adobe will sue apple for actively BLOCKING their technology, resulting in damages. I think that's what's going to happen. Apple will re instate the flash apps and that will be that. I think that's what's going to happen. If it were up to me though, i'd officially say to adobe to get their act together. Apple should also come up with their own standard which does things better. if that were the case, then maybe adobe would finally make flash GOOD on an apple.
I think that adobe will sue apple for actively BLOCKING their technology, resulting in damages. I think that's what's going to happen. Apple will re instate the flash apps and that will be that. I think that's what's going to happen. If it were up to me though, i'd officially say to adobe to get their act together. Apple should also come up with their own standard which does things better. if that were the case, then maybe adobe would finally make flash GOOD on an apple.
Umm...no. Thats nothing like saying that....because in your example, the device would be incapable of playing Crysis due to the games requirements...never will it play Crysis. Its not because the manufacturer of the computer decided that they just don't want it to.
iPhones/iPads...they can do flash...theres nothing in the hardware preventing it. Its the developer preventing it and that's some crap.
I do not want a JooJoo.
Since this could be real and there's always the SLIGHT chance Adobe could win, let's get this out in the open now. I will not be buying any apps that have half-assed Flash-to-iPhone UIs. Adobe may win, but developers will lose.
Honestly, I've seen the cross-compilers in action and they take a pretty good Windows version of something and turn it into a horrible, Windows-looking port. No thanks.
Honestly, I've seen the cross-compilers in action and they take a pretty good Windows version of something and turn it into a horrible, Windows-looking port. No thanks.
I agreed with you up until your "Is the" paragraph. Both your theories have been clearly debunked.