That would be disastrous for Adobe. Something like 50 percent of Photoshop alone is Mac users.
Ain’t that the truth. Wall Street and shareholders would freak out to say the least.
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That would be disastrous for Adobe. Something like 50 percent of Photoshop alone is Mac users.
Ain’t that the truth. Wall Street and shareholders would freak out to say the least.
Hint for future astroturfing efforts: actual Mac users know it's not called a MAC. That's how ignorant PC users write it.
Hang in there, you'll get better at this. Ask AidenShaw for some tips.
Yes exactly.
And when Apple clarified that position, an Adobe PR Platform "evangelist" went mental.
By only buying the OS and not a whole new PC. I think of having my copy of Win7 as a necessary evil
OK, actually I'm quite impressed with Win 7 as an OS, but much prefer the Mac OS environment.
This whole prohibition could be nothing more than a huge case of FUD. Where does it actually say you can't use a complier etc. What I saw was that apps must be 100% in native code, not something else such as Flash with a translator. Nothing about how you get to that point.
and hell if this Adobe thing is actually produces the appropriate code and doesn't say "made by Adobe blah blah" how would Apple know.
and regardless, how many apps are there on the store that were made before even the beta of this thing existed. quite a lot
Yeah, I have a Mac Pro with 12GB of RAM. And what is the point of having the resources? To do something useful with them, not browse the web looking at poorly made Flash websites.
And you want me to show you award winning sites that were done in HTML5 which is currently not a standard while Flash has been around for how long? I am not claiming that HTML5 *alone* is the end of Flash. HTML5, CSS, JS/JQuery, and any other combination of technologies will be able to approach what Flash is doing.
But all of this is moot because this is not what this thread is about, if you would have read the article and understood you would know that this has nothing to do with Flash as a plugin in the iProducts and nothing about anyone telling you what you can and can't have (in the sense you are talking about at least.)
Your evil twin from a parallel universe - "I Hate Apple & I Hate Flash" AidenShaw - shares in your head-exploding inner conflict.
(Or in his parallel universe is it head-imploding? Hmm...)
It is more Apple wants to limit devs to force them to use Apple products and make it more difficult to develop for multiple platforms so it limits the programing languages that can be used.
Adobe is wanting to offer yes a middleware translation labrary for its Flash programing but at the same time it would pretty much allow flash to function as another programing language out there. A lot of people like and perfer to program in one language or another. The most popular one right now being Visual C++. Other popular languages are Visual Basic, C#, Python, Java, Flash ect.
Each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. Apple is forcing people to use a more difficult language to program apps in. They are more powerful but also require a lot more know how to program well in them. Apple is limiting the choices of its devs.
or cry as their sales plummet. Mac users are likely a huge audience for Adobe. Take them out and Adobe could find themselves with a huge loss. But all those designers etc will be fine because they will find other programs or make their own.
I've been pro-Apple for a long time.... not much a fan of the iPad as my post history will show..... but f**k this company. What an absolute disgrace. This is MS part 2. I wil never, EVER purchase another Apple product again in my life.
The revolution always seems like a good idea at the time.
The revolution always seems like a good idea at the time.
Apple sales plummet hahahahaha
, oh wait i can't breath, get over it, Adobe Flash is not important, but if adobe really wants to play then play in the HTML5 world. Netflix uses silverlight and that seems to be able to deal with HTML5.
You say that but I have seen on these boards multiple graphic designers and some personal friends of mind who are in the art world have all stated they are thinking about leaving Apple and going over to windows due to the cost of the hardware to get what they need. They can get what they require from a PC for far less with out having to pay for all the extra crap they do not need.
Part for part Apple computers are competitively price problem is lets say you want something like an upgradable tower. You have to pay an arm and a leg to get than from Apple but for a PC you can get that for 1000 no problem instead on a Mac you have to buy $1000 of extra crap you do not need or want so it is a $1000 premium as far as they are concerned (using it as an example) They want a mid range tower.
I also have heard that if Adobe left apple and went PC only they would quickly follow suit since Photo shop is what the industry uses and the industry is not going to wait a year for something to replace the void.
Apple is not forcing anyone to anything. Want to make money then you use what they want and you do it the way they want, don't care then don't worry.
Your saying that as a Ferrari mechanic I should not have to do it their way but I should be able with just know how to fix a Jugo be able to work on a Ferrari.
Sure and a Phebotomist should be allow to also do brain surgery because its not fair they have to go to school and learn something new, just not fair.
Freak out, more like the CEO would freak out and the share holder would hang the CEO to dry.
They would sue adobe for just been plane stupid.
Thank you for this!
His pretentious buffoonery, hypocritical ad hominem sneers, derogatory drivel, and diatribes of clueless misinformation, as well as recurring episodes of petty instigation and shilling, have littered this forum for years.
Well said - it's too bad for Adobe that an open-source solution has been emerging favorably. For what reason would Apple want to compromise a well functioning mobile platform by allowing substandard spaghetti-compiled crud to drag it down?
It remains interesting that Windows Mobile Series 7 will also be passing on Flash - revelatory.
Not necessarily. CS users will still need it and will either switch to Windows machines or Bootcamp. The revenue will still be there. There is no substitute for the CS suite. If Apple has something in the works to compete against CS I assume they would release it regardlesss of Adobe's support for OS X so that fear is not justified.
But obviously Adobe are too chickens**t too do something like cease OS X support. They'll just continue to whine while Apple bitch slaps them. Quite entertaining to watch Apple pick fights with the various tech giants and get away with it.
Why would they post their apps to the iPhone App Store.... there's 185,000 apps, most of which are pure garbage.
Once the handheld market plays out completely, Apple will have its 10% market share like usual.
Meanwhile..... the touchpad on my MBP has s**t out on me. Awesome.
Perhaps in the long-term, but in the short-term, Adobe would really suffer. Design firms aren't going to switch their software over night. And Adobe dumping OSX for CS5 isn't suddenly going to make CS4 stop working.
Wait a minute
Umm wait a minute. I just checked the release docs for Unity 3D, another middleware program for the iphone. The following is one of their main features.
I don't think that UNITY 3d is going to get bit by this license change because they actually use objective-c. (EDIT: They are already on record saying the license change won't effect them.)
At first I was pissed because I thought apple was digging on Adobe for no reason but....
Adobe swears up and down that they produce valid objective-c: no runtime interpreter, no virtual machine. If so then I don't think they have a problem. Unless they are ********ting and actually have an Objective-C virtual machine that runs their flash code......
In which case Apple has a reason to be pissed and adobe has reason to be scared.
Umm wait a minute. I just checked the release docs for Unity 3D, another middleware program for the iphone. The following is one of their main features.
I don't think that UNITY 3d is going to get bit by this license change because they actually use objective-c. (EDIT: They are already on record saying the license change won't effect them.)
At first I was pissed because I thought apple was digging on Adobe for no reason but....
Adobe swears up and down that they produce valid objective-c: no runtime interpreter, no virtual machine. If so then I don't think they have a problem. Unless they are ********ting and actually have an Objective-C virtual machine that runs their flash code......
In which case Apple has a reason to be pissed and adobe has reason to be scared.
Actually...
From my read of the OS 4 sneak peek, Apple is handling most of the multi-tasking work and putting it into the SDK for implementation by developers. SOunds like Apple is doing a lot of the work.
From my read of the OS 4 sneak peek, Apple is handling most of the multi-tasking work and putting it into the SDK for implementation by developers. SOunds like Apple is doing a lot of the work.
What's this?
Another hypocritical, yet typical, ad hominem derision toward Steve Jobs?
Were you not the one whining, recently, about jeers directed toward Steve Ballmer, as well as yourself?
Yet, here you are.
Bravo!
Armchair critics have been cluelessly defending this ***** in droves lately.
Thank you.