Steve Jobs posts “Thoughts on Flash”: why you’ll never see Flash on iPhone or iPad
Steve Jobs has posted his “Thoughts on Flash” up on Apple.com, and like his previous thoughts on (DRM) music, it’s a fascinating insight into the mind and tactics of Apple’s CEO. As background, this follows up iPhone, iPod touch, and now iPad shipping without Flash support, Apple’s recent change in license to prevent the use [...]
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Adobe quits Flash packager for iPhone, Apple comments
Adobe’s Mike Chambers put up yet another screed against Apple and their iPhone platform — specifically the disallowing of cross-compilers — this time basically saying Adobe was going to stop work on Flash CS5’s iPhone packager because:
The primary goal of Flash has always been to enable cross browser, platform and device development. The [...]
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Steve Jobs says cross-compilers (like Flash CS5) make sub-standard apps
As he’s been doing a lot lately, Apple CEO Steve Jobs replied to an email from a developer concerned about iPhone 4 SDK’s ban on using cross-compilers like Flash CS5 or MonoTouch to create apps.
After a brief exchange about Daring Fireball’s article on the matter, Greg Slepak wrote:
I still think it undermines Apple. [...]
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Is Apple’s cross-compiler ban pro-multitasking not anti-Adobe?
While Apple’s ban on cross-compilers in the iPhone 4.0 SDK has raised a lot of discussion on the net, and generated some fiery responses from Adobe, AppleInsider claims a source who says the move had nothing to do with Flash CS5 or another other, specific cross-compiler, and everything to do with multitasking performance:
The [...]
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Adobe fires back at Apple over cross-compiler ban
With the apparent iPhone 4.0 SDK ban on cross-compiled code, Adobe has begun firing back at Apple. The New York Times Bits Blog carried the following statement from Adobe:
We are aware of Apple’s new SDK language and are looking into it. We continue to develop our Packager for iPhone OS technology, which we [...]
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