This is bordering on the ridiculous.

11Apr10

Apple provides a cross-platform interface. A very good implementation in fact. This is to build a web application.

And for the developer ready to use the device to its limits they provide access to the same level as their own applications. The native apps. The XCode toolset. They provide low-level access (much lower level than Android or WinPhone7) so Apple *must* provide guidance – we are not talking au unlimited desktop computer here, we are talking about a resource limited consumer device.

Adobe proovides cross-platform tools and when were they ever more than a web-app company? When did Adobe become experts in how to best optimize code for the Apple A4 processor?

I think Apple would more than welcome Adobe tools for the web-app interface. Apple provides an almost complete support for the relevant standards.

Why not give Adobe what they and their noisy bunch what they ask?

Because that would just result in a Windows-type situation with the same bland applications on every device. And a race towards zero on hardware. This market already exist: the Netbook market. As a developer I am with Apple, I am prepared to go the extra mile to produce a great product. There are others who are not – well, there are more Netbooks sold than iPads so why are they bitchin at Apple? They should be busy building for the much larger Netbook market?

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