04-10-2010, 06:07 PM
Apple has been drawing ever-tighter lines in the sand ever since OS X. It wants dedicated developers that don't cross-compile for competitors, sure. Which is why this is a threat to Google's Android far more than it is to Adobe's Flash, a non-entity in mobile.
They are telling developers to make a choice now for iPhone vs anything else, unless they want to spend extra time coding for both. None of this was an issue before Android.
So this isn't a desktop fight, it's a mobile fight and has the side effect of making the new Flash less compelling for people who'd like to work with it.
They are telling developers to make a choice now for iPhone vs anything else, unless they want to spend extra time coding for both. None of this was an issue before Android.
So this isn't a desktop fight, it's a mobile fight and has the side effect of making the new Flash less compelling for people who'd like to work with it.