"Go screw yourself Apple." How professional.
I was really shocked at how partisan and flagrantly accusatory this post was. Does Adobe really want this kind of mudslinging associated with their company name?
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#32I'm sorry, but I really don't give a damn. There's a lot of speculation here (and elsewhere), and until I hear anything official from Apple I refuse to get too wound up.
As far as I know, the last time Apple formally responding to the internet debates was when the FCC forced a statement about Google Voice: "HTML5 is open and free enough for anything you want. Google is more than free to create an HTML5 app." We might see something like the rare Phil Schiller emailing John Gruber at Daring Fireball, but I'd highly doubt that.
Unless it highly affects sales (which I doubt the average consumer cares about developers), or a very well known App developer pulls their apps completely (and by well known, I mean well known by the public like Facebook or EA), there'll be no formal or informal response.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
No disrespect intended here. But I have to say this. I just think this is starting to get a little morbid. It's better to win in the field of ideas. If you have a better way, go compete. Create a phone or a tablet or a web site or whatever, and build a business. Wishing someone dead so you can leach off of the one they built is a little 'punk-like'. Now again, no disrespect. I'm just sayin'.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying I want him dead or even the effects of that. I'm just speculating that many people probably do. You could not possibly disrespect me by saying anything about those hypothetical people because I do not embrace their position.
Glad you cleared that up.
I just wanted to address that whole line of thought before it went too far down the rabbit hole.
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#34Are apple employees really forbidden from blogging and posting to social networks?
What immediately came to mind was http://webkit.org/blog
Of course, they stick pretty much on topic so I'm not sure if they occasionally inject personal opinion...
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#35[Sentence regarding Apple's intentions redacted at request from Adobe] did anyone read this before the post was edited?
It's not an "official Adobe blog", but what he writes depends upon what Adobe chooses to redact or not. That sounds like a very passive aggressive way for Adobe to tell Apple to screw themselves.
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#36I continue to be impressed with the license Adobe gives their official representative. This is not the first unprofessional reaction I've seen on this blog. Yes, it is understandable. Is it wise? Maybe a better worded response could inflame the minds of the abused more effectively and not sound like a temper tantrum.
theflashblog.com is not an official Adobe blog. Let me clarify -- theflashblog.com is not produced by Adobe, the company. It is written by an official representative of Adobe, but it is not the official response of Adobe the company, and the site is not an official Adobe site.
> Lee Brimelow is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities.
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#37So, there are a couple things here that jump to my mind. 1. Adobe isn't completely innocent. They're pretty close to a monopoly on their type of software and charge dearly for it (their Creative Suite costs as much as a MacBook Pro). They've done a lot to make sure there are no non-Adobe Flash players even when that's just hurting customers and not costing them money since they don't sell the player. They're not exac…
Adobe doesn't restrict the creation of swf players or swf creation tools.
Gnash,Swfdec are free open source alternatives to Adobe Flash Player.
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#38We've been down this road before with the HTML5 vs Flash iPad post that Lee Brimelow made. The title is wrong, this is not Adobe's official response this is from an Adobe evangelist.
It's clearly not their official PR response, but the author obviously speaks as a representative of Adobe.
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#39So, there are a couple things here that jump to my mind. 1. Adobe isn't completely innocent. They're pretty close to a monopoly on their type of software and charge dearly for it (their Creative Suite costs as much as a MacBook Pro). They've done a lot to make sure there are no non-Adobe Flash players even when that's just hurting customers and not costing them money since they don't sell the player. They're not exac…
It's also in Apple's interest to get people using Objective-C and their toolkit. It brings developers to the Mac by forcing them to buy one.
I'm not convinced Apple is trying to force developers to buy Macs, and I'm far from convinced that such a strategy would actually work.
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#40We've been down this road before with the HTML5 vs Flash iPad post that Lee Brimelow made. The title is wrong, this is not Adobe's official response this is from an Adobe evangelist.
Sorry I can't agree with you a evangelist is an official representative. Its not a personal blog, its all about Adobe.