Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
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Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
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Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#2Pretty cool that Adobe came through with an approvable version of the Wired app after the 3.3.1 change. I'm sure it was originally going to be one of the flagship examples of the CS5 export to iPhone functionality.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#3I feel like the $5 price tag plus advertisements might be a result of Wired passing on the cost of Adobe's misfortune to the consumer.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#4So we have:
Translated from Flash to Objective-C by hand: OK
Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK
The good news, I guess, is that Apple is apparently confirming that "originally written in Objective-C" doesn't mean "the first concrete representation of the program was in Objective-C", which means people are free to prototype an app in whatever language they want, as long as they totally rewrite it in Objective-C by hand.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#5So we have: Translated from Flash to Objective-C by hand: OK Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK The good news, I guess, is that Apple is apparently confirming that "originally written in Objective-C" doesn't mean "the first concrete representation of the program was in Objective-C", which means people are free to prototype an app in whatever language they want, as long as they totally re…
> Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK
Assuming you're referring to the CS5 feature, it converts Flash to byte-code, not Objective-C.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#6The original cross-compile from AIR may have had its own optimization issues. But oh, the irony if the speed at which Adobe has had to port this to Objective-C has resulted in a more sluggish app!
Fortunately, it looks like the native app is actually an improvement. Look at the video from February: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/02/the-wired-ipad-app-a-... The paging, zooming, and scrolling really does look smoother to me.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#7TBH, I think 5$/issue is a bit steep. In Canada I currently pay 40$/yr for my print subscription and I know that an American Print subscription is 20$/yr, so the price difference is pretty substantial.
I will be keeping my print subscription until prices are more reasonable.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#8So we have: Translated from Flash to Objective-C by hand: OK Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK The good news, I guess, is that Apple is apparently confirming that "originally written in Objective-C" doesn't mean "the first concrete representation of the program was in Objective-C", which means people are free to prototype an app in whatever language they want, as long as they totally re…
No we don't, we have:
Rewritten in Objective-C: OK
Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK
It's like the difference between hiring a translator and using Google translate or hiring a typist versus using speech recognition.
[Edited for clarity: meant to change translated by hand to rewritten by intelligent human, and keep the second one the same].
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#9TBH, I think 5$/issue is a bit steep. In Canada I currently pay 40$/yr for my print subscription and I know that an American Print subscription is 20$/yr, so the price difference is pretty substantial. I will be keeping my print subscription until prices are more reasonable.
I'm in the same boat, $40/year as a Canuck.
I'd like both, and would pay $60/year for that.
I'm expecting Wired will do something that motivates current print subscribers to keep the magazine and also grab the iPad version.
That said, the iPad experience is really nice. It's a hefty download as all the media is included (like the Toy Story 3 clip on the front page), but it's so well done.
Re: Wired's iPad edition arrives, converted from Flash by Adobe
#10So we have: Translated from Flash to Objective-C by hand: OK Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK The good news, I guess, is that Apple is apparently confirming that "originally written in Objective-C" doesn't mean "the first concrete representation of the program was in Objective-C", which means people are free to prototype an app in whatever language they want, as long as they totally re…
No we don't, we have: Rewritten in Objective-C: OK Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program: Not OK It's like the difference between hiring a translator and using Google translate or hiring a typist versus using speech recognition. [Edited for clarity: meant to change translated by hand to rewritten by intelligent human, and keep the second one the same].
I don't see how "Machine translation" is any different than "Translated from Flash to Objective-C by computer program".