This is, without doubts, the topic of the week: Go screw yourself Apple. This sentence appears in the most famous blog about Flash: theflashblog.com that is the official one.
The article is Apple Slaps Developers In The Face and has been written by Lee Brimelow, an Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities.
Everybody understand that Adobe has not agreed with the new 3.3.1 section, but Apple can do everything with its products and SDKs.
The war between Adobe and Apple is really old and I found an interesting article about it, called Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself.
I’ll quote some part from this article that give an idea about this war and why is arrived at this point:
ZDNet, 2001:
Creative professionals will “be able to edit their video in Premiere, edit their images in Photoshop and be able to create DVDs in a very creative way”, Chizen said. But they may not be able to do that on a Mac with an Adobe product. Making a Mac DVD product is “something we’re still evaluating”, Chizen said.
A slice from 2002:
Adobe Acrobat 4.x and 5.0 currently do not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. Adobe After Effects 5.0 currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. After Effects 5.0 is supported in OS X classic mode
Adobe FrameMaker 6.0, FrameMaker+SGML 6.0 and FrameViewer 6.0 currently do not offer native support for Apple’s new OSX operating system
Adobe GoLive currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system
Adobe Premiere currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system. Premiere 6.0 also will not work in OS X in classic mode
Adobe currently does not offer native support for Adobe Photoshop Elements for the OS X operating system
Adobe Photoshop currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system
Adobe LiveMotion currently does not offer native support for Apple’s new OS X operating system
CNet, 2004:
• Adobe dropping support for several Mac products, most recently its FrameMaker publishing software and most notably its Premiere video editing application, whose demise as a Mac application was attributed to strong competition from Apple’s Final Cut programs.
• Several new Adobe products have been introduced in Windows-only versions. In the case of Atmosphere, a new 3D animation application, the decision to skip the Mac was attributed to a small pool of potential customers. In the case of Photoshop Album, a light-duty consumer photo application, a similar application was already built into OS X. With its Encore DVD-authoring package, Adobe again pointed to competition from an Apple video application.
• Adobe caused a stir among Apple devotees last year by republishing test results that showed certain Adobe applications running faster on Windows PCs than on Macs.
• Adobe, which could once be relied upon to turn up at any Apple gathering, has skipped several Macworld events in recent years.
John Nack 2006:
John Nack has answered the burning question of OS X Adobe app users everywhere on his blog yesterday: when will we see native Intel OS X versions for all the shiny new Macs Apple is rolling out this year? Unfortunately, the response is less than ideal. In fact, I think it belies something fishy is up either with Adobe, Apple or both.
John Nack’s answer is basically that they have no plans to update the current CS2 or Studio 8 suites to run natively on Intel OS X, which means anyone buying a new Intel Mac this year will have to deal with running these apps in the Rosetta emulation layer. While it seems like this might be at least workable for some users, it is by no means ideal. The only way to get an Intel version of either suite, as of Adobe’s current plans, is to purchase a new/upgrade suite sometime in 20
It’s totally clear that Adobe has underrated the potential of Mac OS X and this politic has really annoyed Apple that now it’s now trying to kill the most important product of Adobe: Flash. The big problem is that section 3.3.1 is not only denying every Flash developer to export apps for iPhone, but even any other project that generate code for iPhone/iPad like Unity3D. Apple could be wrong, but nobody can tells them that this new move is unfair, because Adobe has followed the same politic against Apple for many years, ignoring avery request by Apple and the result is simple: boomerang effect! You can’t ignore people and after they became a market power, be shocked if they give you back the same politic that you’ve used for more than 10 years against them.
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