My .02 on Apple’s anti-flash, anti-freedom movement.
As many of you iPhone consumers may know, Flash isn’t supported and will probably never be supported. The new up and coming iPad (Apple Tablet) will be running a version of the iPhone operating system and will probably have the same exact restrictions. The reason Apple doesn’t want to support Flash is because it allows third party developers to create applications for the iPhone (and soon iPad) for free. Everyone would be making little Flash-lets for the Apple devices and Apple would lose income (that’s dollars) from their app store.
This snapshot of the Apple developers agreement shows you that Apple really doesn’t want to lose control of it’s iPhone. This also proves the reasoning behind not support Flash.
“An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other frameworks, other APIs or otherwise…. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s).” – Apple’s Dev Agreement
As you can see the agreement clearing supports the anti-flash theory that Apple is pushing on it’s consumers. Flash would result in free apps for everyone and Apple obviously isn’t about freedom.
Notes & Opinion: I’m not at all saying that Microsoft or Linux is better than Apple, in fact, I could care less. I’m just saying that it’s sad that people are O.K. with the fact that Apple is preventing competition on their devices. If the government wouldn’t allow Microsoft to block other browsers besides IE why hasn’t the government stepped in to tell Apple to allow other apps to run on their iPhone besides Apple SDK apps? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I’d love to develop apps for Apple and use their products, but I won’t so long Apple continues to restrict their customers. I’m all about freedom, and Apple just isn’t on that boat at the moment.
For more information on Linux, the worlds free operating system with no restrictions, visit Linux.org.
For information on Android, a mobile OS that can be developed for for free and doesn’t restrict developer, check out http://developer.android.com/sdk/.
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Hmmm interesting story. Now I uderstand why html v5 will try to eliminate the need for flash (among other things.) Guess who is editing html 5…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5
Comment by Costas — February 4, 2010 @ 11:04 pm