Attacking Adobe.
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- kult
http://daringfireball.net/2010/0…
This is seriously becoming ridiculous.
- mathinc0
Wow, that's pretty blatant. Apple's fixation on eliminating Flash is getting odd. Did they date once? Did Adobe not call Apple after their date like they said they would? Apple is really coming off like some scorned lover.
- ukit0
Damn. That's serious business.
Adobe was really banking on that "Export to iPhone" feature being a major selling point of CS5.
If this is real, it's big news.
- xcarlx0
apple needs to remember its history....the use of adobe products on macs was the only thing that was attractive about having one for a good 10 year period. before the imac came out, the only large group still using them were designers for photo shop and illustrator.
- yes! it is ridiculous. Post iPod they got too big and successful and lost their valuesckentish
- xcarlx0
way to attack your oldest and most loyal user group apple...way to go.
- teenagers?kingsteven
- Millenials?kingsteven
- generation y?SteveJobs
- graphic designers...im talking way back.xcarlx
- dbloc0
What a little bitch Steve Jobs is.
- detritus0
Apple eats itself.
- Gucci0
I think you are misinterpreting the statement:
"must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine."
"Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited."
I don't believe that the second statement has anything to do with programming language, just API calls, which indicates that you can't write a helper class or helper API of your own to call the native APIs. A common programming practice when dealing with particularly complex APIs is to use what is called a framework. Perhaps the most known framework for programming now is Rails (notorious would be a better word). Rails is not a programming language, Ruby is a programming language. Rails is a framework that makes programming in Ruby easier by using a helper function that does a lot of the work for you.
Instead of (for example) connecting to the database, writing a MySQL query, initiating the query command, checking the status of the result, and then stepping through the result, Rails lets a ruby programmer say "Get this from the database" and Rails does the rest of it automatically.
Some developers for iPhone have been working to create helper classes that simplifies common tasks on the iPhone, and have been hoping to distribute these classes to other developers to help them along.
As far as Adobe's Flash Packager is concerned. When the packager is done, the output is Objective C code that can be interpreted, the tricky word is "originally" which I'm sure is what tripped your concern. But I don't think either statement necessary precludes a code generator, which is what you can consider the Flash Packager or Unity Pro to be, a code generator that generates Objective C code.
via http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/08/i… (comment 13)
- SteveJobs0
@ckentish
he's more poised to win it now, but doesn't seem to be taking that kind of hard-nosed approach. in fact, their entire campaign the last few years (i'm a mac, i'm a pc) has been very light-hearted and all in good fun. but this move and particularly the timing of this move given adobe's announcement on the flash->iphone feature just wreaks of loathing or revenge.
- utopian0
GFY Apple