Collapse replies (29) Reply View in chronology I love reading TechDirt, just registered and this is my first comment. But this is a platform that Apple controls and provides the tools to utilize it. If this was Google saying that their OPEN Android platform can’t run Flash, I could understand people complaining. Apple is making sure there isn’t another layer of complexity from a 3rd party developer tool intergraded into apps to run on their “platform”. The iPhone, touch, and iPad are specific “platforms” with specific guidelines. They are laying out the playing field for developers to know what tools/standards they can expect to be supported on their platform. Apple states that their deck contains open standards: HTML5, CSS, etc. Just like playing with MS’s 360, Sony’s PS3, and Nintendo’s Wii, DS, etc. If you want to play in Apple’s game, you have to play by their rules. However Apple just doesn’t allow that card in their deck. Now, I do understand that “programing” can be done for multiple “platforms” in the sense of “operating systems”… and that’s the card Adobe is trying to play. You can’t expect Microsoft to support development of PS3 games using it’s developer tools. For example: if you want to make your video game for the Xbox 360, you utilize the developer tools provided by Microsoft, the same for PS3 and Sony, and the Wii and DS with Nintendo. This is no different than other “platforms”. But Apple’s apparent insistence on playing by a different set of rules to everyone else, and the hot air that accompanies it, grates just a little bit. None of this, on a strategic level, is particularly reprehensible, they’re just business decisions (even if we don’t agree with the approach). So for him to talk about supporting Web standards - with the point being that they’re standards, available across platforms - is disingenuous when Apple’s strategy for apps is guilty of pretty much everything he accuses Adobe of. Jobs makes it clear that he has no interest in developers using any platform apart from the iPhone, and any tool that helps them do so is worthy of his scorn. Jobs brings up Apple’s support for open Web standards, but that’s really little more than a red herring to distract attention from how Apple wants to lock down developers into its own ecosystem. Nearly every accusation Jobs levels at Adobe and its products can be made about Apple and the way it seeks to control iPhone app development. But just as we pointed out a couple of weeks ago when Apple moved to block cross-platform development tools, regardless of what Apple says, its interest is locking developers into its Apple-controlled and dominated ecosystem. In short, he says that Adobe looking out just for its own interests in drawing developers to its “100% proprietary” Flash ecosystem while Apple supports a great, open standards-based world. Steve Jobs fired the latest salvo in the ongoing Apple-Adobe spat today, with his “Thoughts on Flash” posted on the Apple site. Thu, Apr 29th 2010 04:58pm - Carlo Longino
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