I don't see it. People have paid money for their devices, and would probably be inclined to stick with it, rather than binning it and moving to something else. Plus, people are not going to stop consuming these new devices in record numbers when the next, new generation of their model line starts to ship. For all their…
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apples-iphone-lockdown-apps-must-be-written-in-one-of-three-la/ Apple likes throwing its weight around, and getting into disputes with other companies. No flash on iPad No more google searches built into iphone, they apparently would rather use bing. I agree that adobe probably needs to…
The hilarious thing about all this, is Apple needs Adobe to some degree, yet they have a big fuck you attitude towards them, treating them like scrubs. It's weird in the same way that Activision's attitude was weird and illogical towards an elite developer like IW. What if Adobe thought, ok fuck this, we just won't release…
That is one dilligent employer ;) You should say to them, using that logic, where do you stop? Publishing to Flash Player 6 perhaps, using AS1? Which be probably be another 0.01 installation % and possibly 1 or 2 extra viewers. On the other hand I can somewhat see their point, if update prompts aren't feasible with banner…
I have both an iPhone and a Droid here in front of me... I love the physical keyboard on the Droid but it generally stops there. The Droid is a bit ugly. The iPhone is insanely intuitive. A child can use it. Which is great! It doesn't make anyone a technophobe. It's just quality design. The price points are much lower in…
Glynn - Flash CS5 beta actually has an automatic solution to compile AS3 to iPhone ready Objective C. That is meaningless though in this context, that doesn't allow iPhone users to experience the enourmous amount of Flash that already exists on the internet, it simply allows Flash developers to publish work to iPhone, in a…