OS4.0: Apple really don't like Adobe
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You're making it sound like Apple contracted out to Adobe to build the Flash to iPhone converter with that brochure analogy. When in fact there wasn't any coordination between the two at all.
I mean listen, if I build software that outputs an Adobe format in a way that would be disruptive to their business model, what would they do? Are they under some kind of legal or moral obligation to support it? Not at all, and in fact when Microsoft originally tried to add the ability to "Save As PDF" in Office, Adobe sued them, forcing Microsoft to withdraw that feature.
http://www.betanews.com/article/…
Lil bit of hypocrisy/ irony there, huh? Not to bash Adobe of course, I like Adobe and use their software everyday. But based on early accounts the iPhone exporter was gonna be a major headache anyway in terms of producing stable performance on the iPhone, and, hey if you really want to dev an iPhone app so bad you can always just write it in C++, which is a cross-platform language. Or even comp it up in Flash and then hire a developer to rewrite it in C++. At the end of the day, an app is a fairly major undertaking, it's not like you're gonna be churning out five apps a day just because you have Flash and an export button.