This is why..

[Andrew Tarpinian]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:11 AM, K9 Kai Niggemann wrote:

>
> On 09.04.2010, at 08:40, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>
>> The fact is, the more Apples grip tightens, the more likely someone  
>> is
>> going to come along and slurp up the customers and developers  
>> escaping
>> from their clutches
>
> The fact is that the iPod, the iPhone and many many other great  
> selling ideas of Apple have been around for so long and no-one has  
> been able to build that "iToy-Killer" yet.
>
> To me (as a non-developer) it seems a lot like Apple is making some  
> sensible decisions for platform stability and compatibility for the  
> years to come. Devs don't like that, but once they realize that it's  
> easy to scale to Apple's next hardware, they might change their mind.
>
> Maybe I'm ignorant, but I always prefered HTML- and PHP-websites  
> over Flash-based ones, so I'm glad to see Flash go out the door.

me too, but Apple is going about it in a round about way that is not  
totally clear. Adobes CS5 to iPhone converter is clever but it is a  
hack, the software does not go through apples tools at all, and  
honestly I think it would just bring in a ton of shit flash  
conversions into an over crowded app store. Also I have heard in any  
other country but the US the software would be illegal as it would be  
considered reverse engineering?

It's just a little scary that other software that you can develop  
projects in and then put through Xcode seems somewhat tangled up in  
this adobe war.