Yes true, Flash isn't good on their hardware as they've stated and made clear in their excuses why not to use Flash on their website...
This is twisting things. Flash doesn't run well on anyone's hardware yet, not just Apple's. That's the whole point.
But there's a difference, Apple say no to Adobe, only to punish (yes punish) the users of their hardware.
No, they're trying to save you from crashes and poor battery life. If you want this flash you can go elsewhere. Just a shame it isn't quite ready anywhere else yet.
Apple slaps a premium price on hardware and limits what it's OS can run on.
And turns a blind eye to the hackintosh community.
Microsoft customise their software to work on any hardware...
Two things: a) they do work on reference designs for motherboards etc and in close collaboration with intel and AMD, so it is not an entirely random mish-mash of hardware b) despite this, look what a mess they have made of it in the recent and not so recent past.
Microsoft make one mistake and the media are all over it, Apple jabbing them, even the price of their OS is laughed at...
I'd read up on it a bit more. It wasn't one little mistake. Microsoft are not well liked for many reasons.
Apple make a big step and say no way to Adobe and all you get is 1 news paragraph saying what's happened.
[1] Apple was quite open and reasonable about working with Adobe to begin with. It was Adobe's complete failure to deliver anything beyond a few buggy, battery draining proof of concept demos that has kind of deterred them.
[2] We've had quite a bit more than one paragraph.
Microsoft make 1 mistake it's all over the news, people moaning, sarcasm thrown at them etc...
Same with Apple. And Microsoft have been given a free pass on some things. Like all the hype over Apple defending their IP. Then when Microsoft announce they are making money from every
HTC phone sold with the
Google Android Operating System (note the lack of Microsoft involvement!) it passes by with barely a whisper.
Apple don't care, their systems are for rich people anyway.
Apple care about a lot, which is why their CEO is up a 2AM answering emails to dissatisfied customers. Here's another
positive example of Apple caring:
During most of our audits, suppliers stated that Apple was the only company that had ever audited their facility for supplier responsibility.
Apple may be big, but they're far from evil yet.
