Surprise Surprise.... NOT.
I mean seriously... Adobe products practically LIVED off Apple PC sales for year before they went PC mainstream. If Flash was GOOD for Apple touch products, Steve Jobs would be ALL about them. But he was right. They SUCK. And now we have Droid products which, by perception alone, will seem to suck, to users, just because they “wanted” to be “not” Apple.
Suckers.
An astute observation. I know a couple of people who had iPhones but now have Androids. I don't know why they changed but they are now singing the praises of Android. I suspect, with these particular people, that the price difference is the reason. They were previously really boasting about their iPhones.
As we have seen in the past, I think the Apple system's superiority will soon be obvious.
Your #7:I'm put in mind of the Peanuts episode that provoked thought at the time, and that I now consider a classic in my memory.
- First panel: Lucy screams, YOU BLOCKHEAD!
- Second panel: Another girl says, "You shouldn't call Charlie Brown a blockhead." Lucy replies, "Why not?"
- Last panel: Girl replies, "Because he might be one.
Moral: You may be perfectly right in your post - but even if so, it might be bad form to say so.We don't need a return to the bad old days of flame wars on these threads!
Apple and Adobe pretty much kept each other alive through the ‘80s and early ‘90s (especially if you count Aldus). But the bloom has been off the rose for a while. Adobe decided to make Windows its primary platform, and was ridiculously slow to make the transition to PowerPC; slow to go fully OS X native; slow to convert to Intel.
Illustrator (since it absorbed Freehand) and Photoshop were pretty much the only game in town, and InDesign was poised to eat the lunch of Quark, a company that was even worse about releasing bug-riddled software and taking forever to update. (It’s been a long time since I was in print production, but knowing workarounds for Quark glitches was practically a job requirement. It was on many a resume.)
Apple has also not been shy about becoming a direct competitor to Adobe. Aperture beats Lightroom all hollow, and Final Cut Pro pretty much drove a stake through the heart of Premiere for Mac. Adobe has a professional audio tool I can’t even name; the battle is between Logic and Protools.
All that said, and while there are definitely tensions between the companies, keeping Flash off of iDevices is a question of the product, not the politics. Maybe, someday, Adobe will come up with a version of Flash optimized for touch-screen devices, that loads tight, fast-loading code, and that elegantly handles non-mobile Flash content. And maybe, when something like that exists, Apple will reconsider. But if designers are going to transition their content over to this new Flash, they might as well make the switch to HTML5.
If Adobe isn’t working on producing kick-ass HTML 5 authoring tools, they’re idiots.