Flash evangelist tells Apple to screw itself

 

Apple's attitude provokes angry response.

The ongoing battle of wills between Apple and the Flash community has turned ugly, with an Adobe evangelist making scathing personal comments about the blocking of Flash on Apple hardware.

Apple has been engaged in an ongoing feud with Adobe over Flash. Steve Jobs has called Flash buggy and a CPU hog, but developers are split over the future of the platform. Now Lee Brimelow, platform evangelist at Adobe has raised the temperature with a personal blog posting.

“Speaking purely for myself, I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple,” he wrote in an angry blog post.

He said that the new iPhone 4.0 SDK appears to block non-Apple-approved languages as a violation of terms. This was a “tyrannical control over developers” he said.

“The fact that Apple would make such a hostile and despicable move like this clearly shows the difference between our two companies,” he said.

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Flash evangelist tells Apple to screw itself
"Good news. Firefox 3.6.4 handles Flash crashes beautifully!"
By Ace
 
 
 
Comments: 3
Ace
Apr 13, 2010 2:26 PM
Flash has evangelists?

Unfortunately it's true. Flash is a CPU hog.
RDEFCON1
Apr 13, 2010 5:34 PM
Such an eloquent defense! Clearly they don't disagree (about Flash hogging CPU), they just don't like Apple saying so.

Perhaps Adobe should fix it's software platform rather than trying to divert the argument to Apple's developer policies.
Ace
Apr 19, 2010 1:19 PM
Good news. Firefox 3.6.4 handles Flash crashes beautifully!
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