Comments on: Apple blocks Adobe Flash CS5 iPhone Exporter

By: Alex Banks

Alex Banks — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:39:39 +0000

To me the point is about taking the time and putting effort into blocking or restricting existing technologies. Apple is putting effort and money into blocking successful technologies. There would not be an HTML 5 without Flash. Flash made the internet better. The type of functionality introduced by Director and Flash made it possible for us to dream up how AJAX and JQuery would work.

Essentially we are letting Apple become the God of technology… letting them decide what stays and prospers and what does not. That is not open source, nor is it freedom of choice. We give one person and one company an awful lot of power over the direction of our Evolution. To me that is scary.

I don’t point the finger at Adobe for what they have done. They have made a successful technology that people love to use. They are putting their energy and effort into creating and not controlling… this is true open source.

By: Not Carl

Not Carl — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:28:40 +0000

I hope apple gets worms!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:11:12 +0000

I would say it is pretty clear Apple is on a mission to kill Flash and make HTML5 the standard going forward. Every move they have made since they released the iPhone has indicated this.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:03:57 +0000

I would say it is pretty clear Apple is on a mission to kill Flash and make HTML5 the standard going forward. Every move they have made since they released the iPhone has indicated this.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 13:39:09 +0000

Apple seems like Microsoft now 10 years ago. It blocks other innovations like java and flash only for profit. That has nothing to do with how web works. After some years nobody will care about Apple. Industry and consumers will hate big brother’s methodology. Android platform rules.

By: William

William — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:17:09 +0000

I agree with Mark, many Flash designers and developers have at least a set of Apple computer with them for Flash-based works. Apple and Adobe used to go hand in hand together, but it’s all come down to profit, not what is best to users and developers.

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By: AkiraHojo

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:01:29 +0000

cannot understand why apple did this, because they could still have made money becouse the way adobe did it was very clean, and the apps that u would have build with flash apple would still make profit from appstore 🙂 and it is not fair the adobe people becouse most of them use apple equipment for design and video … shame on apple

By: RJ

RJ — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:10:56 +0000

Well time to move on… instead of another Iphone to my wife and a new Macbook at work it will now be 2 new HTC desire and an I7 core windows 7 … bad business apple!!