This hasn´t anything to do with money.
Considering Apple is a business, and businesses exist primarily to make money, yes, it has a LOT to do with money.
As long as people continue to buy iPads and iPhones in enough numbers that Apple continues to make sizable profits quarter after quarter, it will be a confirmation in Steve's eyes (and the eyes of the stockholders, the board, and even the industry in general) that he is making the right decisions, on Flash and other things. Blog posts and whine-fests in forums don't put money in these people's pockets. People lining up for days on end when the next iProduct comes out
does. And clearly enough people don't find the lack of Flash
that much of a problem that it prevents them from buying iOS devices.
It also doesn't matter if you call these people fanboys or not. At the end of the day, they are fanboys
with money, and those fanboys are handing fistfulls of it over to the alleged object of their fanboyism. Investors,. Steve Jobs, and market analysts don't care if the people handing that cash over are people
you call fanboys, because money is money. And every dollar spent by an alleged fanboy to Apple is one less dollar spent on a Flash-friendly device.
Again, it doesn´t matter if all the people in the world would switch to Mac OS X or iOS overnight. iOS would still have major weakness (lack of Flash) and Safari would run Flash noticeable worse than other browsers like Firefox.
Actually, it
does matter. Again, if everyone switched to iOS/OS X overnight, then
everyone has decided that Flash isn't too important to
avoid switching. If it's REALLY that important to you to have Flash, you don't switch!
It´s like buying a car with no stereo (even if it´s the best car around otherwise) and the manufacturer denies installing one in the car. Don´t you all think that´s kind of huge PITA and a shame?
It is, but if having a stereo is of the utmost importance to you, then clearly, the lack of a stereo should make it
NOT the best car around. Your option then, is to go buy another car... one that has a stereo and by virtue of that stereo being so important to you,
is the better car.
Is Flash that important to you? Go buy a Droid X. I'm told it works really well.
(Not that this jives with
my experience, but I'm still told this nonetheless.)
For better or for worse, this is how the industry, and how the market in general, works. There is no iOS device that supports Flash out of the box. So you must choose:
- Buy something else
- Suck it up and buy the iOS device
- Make your own
If you choose to suck it up and buy the iOS device, a lack of out-of-the-box Flash is a reality you must accept, until market forces persuade Apple otherwise.
If enough people felt having Flash exceeded the importance of having iOS, then maybe that would force Apple to reconsider. So far, it has not. Like it or not, that's the way it is!
What do you think will be Apple's consumers reaction when they are going to see Flash work fine ion everyone's hands but theirs? That's right, good bye Apple dominance, backs to where it belongs, 10% market share and an insignificant community of 100,000 developers (we are 3,000,000 Flash developers).
Sounds like Flash has a lot going for it. So... why do you even
care so much what Apple does? And why does Adobe?
