Everyone else is bending over backward to get Flash for their mobile platforms because it's the only thing they have that stands out against Apple's iProducts. The ironic thing is that if Apple had allowed Flash on the original iPhone, you can pretty much guarantee Adobe wouldn't be busting their butts optimizing it now. They simply wouldn't have the motivation to impress anyone. You Flash lovers should be thanking Apple for holding out.
There might be some truth in there - I agree...
And let me make one thing perfectly clear - I also think Adobe has turned into fat hog in recent years and agree that they could have done much much more - not only with Flash, but with other software too. IMHO only 100% awesome piece of software that they produced in recent time is Lightroom... From UI to performance to features its an awesome 10/10 package - rest, as most will agree, can perform and do much better...
However, lets get back on topic of Flash...
We all know that there are few bugs that needs to be ironed out and that performance of Flash Player can and needs to be better - but this can be applied to anything and everything out there!
Just look at OS X and latest fix Apple released in regards to sound performance issues on Mac Pro machines. I mean hello!!! Can you imagine yourself spending 3-4k on awesome machine just to have issues with overheating while playing song from iTunes and then waiting for 1 YEAR for Apple to fix it!?!?! If you are not running SL you are still screwed cos there is still no fix for 10.5... So much about calling someone lazy or calling some software buggy...
Every software out there can be better hence we are heaving regular updates and fixes with them all...
Now, why am I pretty pissed of with Apple?
Well here is short incomplete list:
- hypocrisy and ignorance (accusing someone of being lazy and starting all out war while at the same time taking year(s) to fix bugs with their own software and OS)
- lies and ******** (ultimate browsing experience!? - faked screen grabs of sites running flash that were later removed from apple.com when **** started hitting the fan!? - claims that flash would eat up battery life and similar bs while at the same time huge number of competing devices are happily demoing latest flash player!?)
- pricing rip-of (they have turned into one of the biggest rip-of companies ever! - not only for selling outdated, mid range hardware, manufactured in China at LOLable prices but also for loosing touch with "just works" motto - since more and more things sold to us by apple are more "it just doesn't work" kind of thing... Decade ago - things were different! You would pay same price you are paying now but would get top of the range hardware, awesome built quality as well as software that truly "just worked"... Today things are rather quickly turning the other way around....)
- control freakness (I have nothing against if someone is control freak when it comes down to their own IPs... However, if someone goes all freaky about the internet - arguably the only symbol of freedom we have today - and starts directly and indirectly dictating what we can and can't see on it, is going way way to far... If we pay premium price for a device at VERY LEAST we want to be able to use it way we want to and not be censured and controlled like we are bunch of idiots!)
- greed, greed, ... and some more greed (in fact, their greed is taking monstrous and very dangerous proportions!)
In any case, back to your post - directly or indirectly Apple might have pushed Adobe a bit - and this is good if true!
But they could have done the same thing in professional, and most importantly, productive way - without starting all out war, without talking utter nonsense in public, without calling people lazy, without shouting and persuading world that black is white and white is blue and without loosing thousands upon thousands of potential customers in a process...
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