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Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile
Jobs is nuts if he thinks Apple ANYTHING is "open". Apple is more closed than Microsoft, whom everyone loves to bash for their proprietary, closed-source product line.
Yes, this reality will piss off the latte-sipping, corduroy-blazer-wearing, Volvo-driving, tree-hugging Apple crowd over in Cambridge who pay thousands of dollars for anything with an Apple logo on it because "it's not the evil Microsoft" and to impress their friends, but it's still the reality. I personally can't stand Apple's arrogance to smugly insist that they're "open" yet are far more authoritarian with their products/software and seek to control everything associated with them with an iron fist.
Adobe's products are hardly junk. Flash has lived out its usefulness (I agree with Jobs there) but their strength is in video/graphics editing (Creative Suite, etc.)
"Open". Yeah, my arse.
It will be very interesting to see Adobe's response to this.
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Apple is very Open. They are a .nix with a proprietary GUI.
Darwin, the core of the OS is Open Source. Windows, not even close.
Each and every box ships with Apache, Perl, mySQL, Ruby, X11, Webkit etc......
It's a very simple question.
Allow a 3rd party the ability to control your stuff or maintain control yourself.
The Flash port is the lazy way out. In my industry we deal with ported product on a daily basis.
While porting has it's place and many times creates no issues the fact is there is no substitute for platform specific code.