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Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple's iPhone Flash Ban
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11/02/09
So because the iPhone is running a modified version of OS X, and our software blows donkey balls (google it, there are pics), we will not fix it in any way but will instead blame Apple. Besides, we are running out of banannas to feed our Mac OS software engineers.
//All kidding aside, this problem swings both ways, and the blame cannot be placed solely upon Apple. #iphoneflashsupport
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People can try to jailbreak their phone, or make a Hackintosh, or go 200mph on the street in a school zone. On the flip side, Apple also has every right to protect their profits, keep their shareholders happy, and try to keep people from doing otherwise; police as well cant prevent everyone from always speeding, but will do everything in their power to stop or prevent it otherwise.
Not aimed specifically towards your comment, but the arguement, "I bought it, it's mine, and I should be able to do whatever I want" doesn't necessarily apply for similar reasons. You can do whatever you want, but that doesn't mean anyone has to support or offer warranty or service to you for doing so, but I digress.
From what I've heard, while the Apple app store process (submitting apps I assume you mean) isn't perfect, in relation to the other new ones popping up it isn't the worst. This is all new territory, Apple just had a bit of a head start with the iTunes store, and also have the largest and the first highly successful and profitable one. It will only improve with time. #iphoneflashsupport
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Snarky would be, "Boy we would LOVE to give you guys a flash player, we have one ready to go and it's awesome. But Mean ol' Apple says no".
Then again, how is Flash 10 coming along for Android, Blackberry, WinMo, Palm, and any other phone that it's allowed on? Oh yeah, it doesn't exist. So I guess they can't say that they have one ready to go, because they don't. (See, that's how you do snarky.) #iphoneflashsupport
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A standalone flash-enabled browser in the App Store might be the best way to get Flash on the iPhone directly, but seeing as how Apple is, that may not happen anytime soon, unfortunately.
The only viable route I can see for Adobe is to go the Jailbreak route and release Flash Player as a Cydia package. Not only will the iPhone finally have flash, but it will entice more people to defy Apple's restrictions, en-masse. A revolution, if you will.
Вся власть советам! #iphoneflashsupport
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I have no use for call forwarding, so that's probably why I had never seen it. #iphoneflashsupport
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Wellp #iphoneflashsupport
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Perhaps adobe got sick of answering emails and calls from iphone users about their product so they did the easiest thing.
Honestly i didnt know they made 501s with pockets big enough to fit entire blogs into. #iphoneflashsupport
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Adobe's Flash Player is too poorly coded to be logical for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch. Until WE decide to put some effort into creating a better framework Flash Player will continue to be a piece of shit. #iphoneflashsupport
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Flash! Pew Pew! #iphoneflashsupport
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@circa86: I just posted something similar. Guess I should have looked around first. #iphoneflashsupport
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Flash is a direct competitor with the App Store... it's that simple. The App Store is Apple's killer App.
Not having Flash support on the iPhone OS forces developers to commit to the iPhone. If they had Flash at their disposal they could write an app and have it work on all platforms. But why would Apple want those other platforms to have those great apps as well when they can make it more difficult for developers to do so by forcing them to have to port those apps to those other platforms instead of just writing one Flash App.
don't think that the other platforms are any different. They also want developers to commit to them at the expense of the other platforms. #iphoneflashsupport
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When the App Store apps have to compete with Flash equivalents, free beats 99 cents. #iphoneflashsupport
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EDIT: Oops, I reread your post and apparently thought you were saying something that you, in fact, did not. I will leave my original post so that all may see how stupid I am when running on 2 hours of sleep.
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If anything, it gives a better idea as to why a platform user hadn't seen flash on their device and why it likely will not show up on there for some time. #iphoneflashsupport
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