Comments on: Apple is getting a bit dickish

By: Adobe Launches Creative Suite 5.5 with New Video Features and Monthly Payment Option | NoFilmSchool

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:18:57 +0000

[...] audio editing application than the presently-bundled Soundbooth), and considering Adobe’s chilly relationship with Apple, the suite has an interesting focus on using the iPad to extend Photoshop (no word yet [...]

By: Adobe Releases Beta of Flash-to-HTML5 Conversion Tool ‘Wallaby’ | NoFilmSchool

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:16:23 +0000

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By: How Has the iPad Affected Filmmakers and Creatives? | NoFilmSchool

How Has the iPad Affected Filmmakers and Creatives? | NoFilmSchool — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:05:45 +0000

[...] Current example: I hang my head in shame for that one. Though Apple did eventually reverse their decision and allow Flash-developed apps (which is different than approving the Flash plugin), the damage had been done. Apple and Adobe are now anything but BFFs. [...]

By: baby lown

baby lown — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:03:46 +0000

this is incresible, I can;t belive its true, I have to look it up in wikipedia

By: Apple Snubs Adobe Again with New Mac Pros - NoFilmSchool

Apple Snubs Adobe Again with New Mac Pros - NoFilmSchool — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:18:10 +0000

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The iPhone 4 Does Not “Change Everything Again” - NoFilmSchool — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:22:03 +0000

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Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:43:47 +0000

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By: yosselin

yosselin — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:34:25 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:49:35 +0000

Okay, I bow down to Steve Jobs.

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

I have never been a fan of Flash, but in this particular case I was trying to figure out how to make cross-platform apps on what is probably an unrealistically low budget. Outside of this circumstance, I will not be missing Flash one bit going forward.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:28:49 +0000

And… so much for all of that.

http://gizmodo.com/5520938/adobe-dropping-iphone-app-development-technology-after-cs5

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:35:10 +0000

Andrius,

Well… I suppose you’re right. Apple wants to avoid slow and sluggish apps, which would only make their hardware look bad. Still, it’s kind of funny how they went about announcing it — by changing the SDK agreement mere days before Adobe publicly launched their much talked-about Flash export feature. And while I agree many ported apps would perform poorly, I also think there are plenty that could work just fine — an example I would use would be TweetDeck, which runs on Adobe AIR. It’s a tad sluggish on the desktop, sure, but tons of people use it because it’s useful (and cross-platform). If Mac OS X had the same draconian SDK terms as the new iPhone SDK, TweetDeck couldn’t be released on it at all.

And yes, they programmed their own custom version for the iPad. But it should be the developer’s call, and responsibility, to make good applications, not the platform vendor (IMO). That seems to have worked out fine for Mac OS X…

By: Andrius Simutis

Andrius Simutis — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:06:52 +0000

I’m as much for democratization of the tools and technologies as anyone, yet I can’t get that fired up over this issue. Sure it would be nice to write once and publish on multiple platforms, but the reality is that the end product rarely performs that well when it has some form of translation or emulation layer applied to it. Apple is foremost looking out for it’s customers, who will blame Apple when their iPhone crashes, and in the end there isn’t exactly a scarcity of apps out there for those customers to choose from. Apple is taking the effort to control the quality of the end user experience at the expense of the flash programmer looking to push out a project on the cheap. Not really surprising that they would make this move, especially when they’ve been telling everyone to use Xcode, Objective-C, and WebKit.
For a much better comment on this than I can type, check this post: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331

On the proApps side, I do agree that a real update is overdue, but I don’t think that anyone here is serious about throwing away years of learned experience on FCP for a single version of Premiere and the various rings of hell that await in running any flavor of windows.

By: Stino

Stino — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:40:14 +0000

Amazing how Apple is turning its back on the creative professionals that remained loyal to the company’s OS during the long time Apple wasn’t doing well. First Job’s comes out saying “we’re a mobile company” Then they release a tablet which, in my opinion, lacks serious hardware features. And now, they are crushing the hopes of thousands of developers who could come up with amazing stuff using Flash’s multi touch capabilities. El pueblo de Cupertino pulled a serious bitch move with this one. If they continue this “hail the consumer, screw the professional” crusade i will be seriously considering switching back to PC hardware…running Leopard, of course :-)

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:36:18 +0000

It’s interesting how much benefit of the doubt I give to Apple, whenever they do something stupid, selfish and damaging. I’d never give that kind of pass to anything PC related. It’s just fanboy bias, I guess – even though I hate to think of myself as a fanboy.
The CS5 suite is pretty tempting. I do trust Adobe to keep improving their software, and I do like the idea of not being beholden to one expensive hardware manufacturer. I don’t trust Apple to keep improving their video software – the recent butchering of Quicktime after years of neglect of its amazing interactive potential, and the bastardising of iMovie a couple of years ago are just two of a number of signs that Apple are maybe really not as interested in continued innovation and excellence in this field as their competitors.
I never thought I’d see a time when I’d be willing to move back to PC, but you’ve made me think…