Browsing the web on your iPad and iPhone is guaranteed to yield a few “?” cubes for the next decade at least (unless someone invents a hack to get it running and you mod your device voiding your warranty).
Adobe and Apple have locked horns recently and developers the world over have being caught in the middle. But we aren’t developers we are consumers so why should we care about what Apple not allowing flash on their devices.
Well to start with Flash has being around since 1996 (formerly Macromedia Flash before being acquired by Adobe). So my iPhone I just paid $1000 for in 2010 can’t support content created in 1996 great! of course flash has been an integral part of the web growing up.
One of Apple’s claims is it uses too much battery life, guess what let me decide how I want to spend my iPhone battery life! not you not anyone. This seems a bit like when Apple decided it would be better for them (is that meant to be me PR person please?) that I can’t use Google Voice. In fact they don’t even want me to watch porn on their devices?
A better question
Do Apple care about what you want? the only way I can judge that is by the choices they have taken away from me in the past. They seem to care about their idea of what people want not choice.
An even better question
Do Apple care about developers? they make all the apps, no developers equals a very expensive smart phone in your pocket that can’t do anything especially great. The best developers are very smart people and if they don’t like working with Apple looking over their shoulder then don’t expect them to be making apps for much longer. iPhones are killing the smart phone market for now and that is a big attraction for developers but I don’t think its attitude will continue to retain the best developers.
