Why is Apple being a pain?

[macfan881]

I don't really buy that. The Macbook/Pros are advertised with up to 7 hours of battery life, but Flash is supported on those. If the iPad's battery lasts 10 hours, there's no real reason they shouldn't support it on that platform either.



Yes and no. They've always been stingy, I wouldn't necessarily call it arrogant though.



How'd you watch it on the iPhone if it's a Flash app? Or do they have a non-Flash version?

the MLB at Bat app duh

 

[NT1440]

I couldn't agree more with this: http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888

As an OS-X user and slight Apple fanboy i'm ashamed and disappointed with Apple's recent moves and hatred towards Adobe. The latter works hard to improve Flash for mobile devices, yet Apple seems to have no interest to collaborate and support it, instead they're being d*cks to Adobe and spewing more hatred towards them with the latest SDK move which makes no sense at all other than being like a dictatorship (oh how i remember the '1984' ad). The new CS5 tools would've been amazing to use for the appstore development, but it seems Steve Jobs is getting pretty arrogant and hostile, not just towards Google but Adobe too.

The only reason why Apple still sells Mac's is probably because of Adobe.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/09/apple-blocking-flash-built-apps-because-of-multitasking/

I know many of you are willing to just jump on the drama driven reporting of the industry. Those of us that like to actually think though actually look past the "omg he hates her!" highschool mentality and look for reason behind business decisions.

 

[Hmac]

I don't really buy that. The Macbook/Pros are advertised with up to 7 hours of battery life, but Flash is supported on those. If the iPad's battery lasts 10 hours, there's no real reason they shouldn't support it on that platform either.

Sorry, but IMHO good battery performance should not be license to excuse bad software that squanders system resources unnecessarily. Add in system instability and you've got a non-starter for a company like Apple whose products have to continually strive for system efficiency.

 

[miles01110]

Sorry, but IMHO good battery performance should not be license to excuse bad software that squanders system resources unnecessarily.

Ironic. Ever use iPhoto with a library larger than a few thousand photos? Or how about iWeb. If Apple was really concerned about producing web-compliant code, you'd think they'd put more effort into cleaning up the "html" iWeb produces.

The "bad software" argument is nothing more than hypocrisy at best. Flash applications can be perfectly fine, it's just uncommon. I don't see how that's Adobe's fault as opposed to the "developers" that write crappy programs or build crappy websites.

Add in system instability and you've got a non-starter for a company like Apple whose products have to continually strive for system efficiency.

I'll try to remember that the next time I drag a couple of moderately sized PDFs and mdworker starts indexing them with 100% of my cpu.

 

[Hmac]

Ironic. Ever use iPhoto with a library larger than a few thousand photos? Or how about iWeb. If Apple was really concerned about producing web-compliant code, you'd think they'd put more effort into cleaning up the "html" iWeb produces.

The "bad software" argument is nothing more than hypocrisy at best. Flash applications can be perfectly fine, it's just uncommon. I don't see how that's Adobe's fault as opposed to the "developers" that write crappy programs or build crappy websites. I'll try to remember that the next time I drag a couple of moderately sized PDFs and mdworker starts indexing them with 100% of my cpu.

The quality of Apple's software isn't the issue and is irrelevant to the quality of Adobe's. It's Apple's company. THEY get to decide how they want their resources squandered.

 

[decksnap]

This is the answer... and it seems pretty straightforward to me. Not exactly 'being a dick'.

http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

 

[quantum003]

Apple's being a duck?

 

[maflynn]

Apple has always been a very arrogant organization, this is nothing new. Its just now apple is a more powerful company and so its being noticed more.

Yes and no. They've always been stingy, I wouldn't necessarily call it arrogant though.

I've been an apple fan since the apple II and I've owned macs since the Macintosh SE/30. One of the most consistent attributes, I've noticed is there arrogance. It has ebbed and flowed but its always been there. I think its been more pronounced when Jobs was with apple. That is they've taken on his swagger and arrogance at the corporate level.

 

[yellow]

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[*LTD*]

I've been an apple fan since the apple II and I've owned macs since the Macintosh SE/30. One of the most consistent attributes, I've noticed is there arrogance. It has ebbed and flowed but its always been there. I think its been more pronounced when Jobs was with apple. That is they've taken on his swagger and arrogance at the corporate level.

Apple knows they put out a better product and have the balls to declare it. Apple's numbers seem to back it up these days. I see nothing wrong with knowing you're the best and then sticking it to the competition. It's high time Apple put down (verbally and in terms of action) the lousy efforts of the competition. Someone's calling the rest of the industry out on the utter crap it churns out and it's called "arrogance." LOL