Apple was right, Adobe: get over it
As many of you know, Adobe decision to ban third-party apps converter (.net, flash, …) got a pretty bad reaction… in particular among developers.
I love Apple and the iPhone mainly because of the apps.
- I find them all in one place
- The quality is awesome
- I am sure they won’t fuck up my phone
and this is because Apple created a great process to streamline any developer application into a single App Store. A very rigid process, actually. And it worked excellently.
Now, seeing all the apps compilers that are bypassing their development environment, they saw a clear danger of not being able to keep the process controlled and streamlined anymore. The very same development & approval process that made the iPhone and the iPod Touch apps so successful nowadays.
Therefore, the ban. And to me, it seems pretty fair.
Apple gave and is still giving developers awesome chances to publish great apps, get their name out there and get a fairly decent revenue leveraging on a very successfully working App Store.
It would be utterly insane for them to get thousands and thousands of more developers submitting thousands of apps, developed by third party frameworks that hide completely the Cocoa environment and Apple’s SDKs.
It would have been great for me as well to develop an iPhone application just using C#, without studying their Cocoa framework. But I understand their choices and I pretty much agree with them.
Anyway, please just stop saying Apple is evil. They are playing by their rules and they decide who can publish apps on THEIR phone. Don’t you like it? There are tons of other phones and companies out there waiting for you.
Adobe has been just one of the companies being affected by this… but I wonder if there has been any deal or partnership before starting the “Flash to iPhone” feature development. If not, Adobe has been victim of a very bold move.
