Apple puts legal knife into Adobe's CS5 - New iPhone Developer Agreement Bans the Use of Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone Compile

[Tulrin]

Article Accelerator wrote:
Are you surprised to find a fanboi or fangurrrl on a site called MacResource Forum? Are you surprised that a Mac user would prefer software that makes the most of his or her chosen platform?

Nope, just don't normally argue with your type since you rarely have an original thought, only spout the party line and instantly think if someone does not entirely agree with your inane statements they are somehow "against" your favorite product/company/person... etc.

Article Accelerator wrote:
Hypocritical? I don't think so. Users of other platforms are free to choose devices that don't require iTunes for sync/update. On the Mac, at least, some users are not free to choose alternate software to fulfill their needs. See below.

That pretty much meets the definition of hypocritical.

The last half of your argument supports my position rather than refute it. If there is no alternative then the platform is definitely benefiting from the application being on the platform since it is filling a need that is otherwise not addressed.

Is it really better to have nothing at all? That seems to be what you are arguing.

Article Accelerator wrote:

Not quite--it's not "simple" at all.

Apple has already been down this road and suffered the consequences of having its Mac competitive advantages erased by ported or cross-compiled lowest-common-denominator applications. Users may still use those applications because industry practices and standards demand they do so (e.g. Photoshop, InDesign) but they feel the pain of the non-optimal performance and foreign interface nonetheless.

Everyone has to suffer with Adobe CS. It is buggy and odd no matter what OS you use but applications with weird UIs is hardly new. Just think of Zbrush, any product by Autodesk, Poser... the list goes on. No one is forced to use them no matter what platform they use. No one is forced to use Adobe products and there are alternatives on both Windows and Mac.

So I have to ask again; Is it really better to have nothing at all? If there is no alternative to these applications you mention then certainly it is a benefit to users to have something that fills a the need rather than nothing at all.

There is always a choice. Don't like Adobe, don't install it on your computer. End of problem for you.

Article Accelerator wrote:
Apple is not going to make the same mistake and get similarly boxed in and jerked around with its new touch platform. Capisce?

Now you are just repeating things I wrote earlier.