“Which brings me to the latest flap about Apple, Adobe and reports that Apple may have run afoul of anti-trust law. If I’m to understand this, developers are angry that Apple prevents them from developing cross-platform apps by refusing to allow them to use Adobe’s Flash software,” Goldman writes.
Goldman writes, “Developers are arguing and the Feds are apparently examining whether this is an abuse of Apple’s power. Spare me. This is Apple’s marketplace-Apple’s platform. And if developer’s want to develop for the App Store, and the iPad and the iPhone and the iPod, they have to play by Apple’s rules. Some developers complain that they have to go out of their way to develop one app for Apple, and then a different version for everyone else. Too bad. Walmart sets the rules for products sold in its store. Same with Barnes & Noble. Costco. If companies don’t like it, they can sell their wares across the street. But they won’t, because they can’t ignore the Apple marketplace.”
Much more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lurker_PC” for the heads up.]
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Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds – Albert Einstein
( and zek)
“Unlike Reagan and Bush, and even Clinton for that matter, in President Obama’s administration, Apple faces an increasingly activist, regulatory climate,”
Right-wing drivel.
@lurker… BINGO!
@NHL
Yep, NHL got it right.
This is a bunch of BS and FUD coming from… who know at this point? The government has it’s hands full with serious issues. Wounded egos don’t count for much.
Adobe? Nokia? HTC? MS? A Consortium of Apple Haters? Who knows?
@x
Spare us the knuckle-dragging, paranoid crap.
Obama could be more centrist. he’s 1/2 black so that makes him a terrorist, socialist, communist, fascist, non-citizen? Take your pick, mix and match or select them all!
Even Nixon would be considered a liberal today.
As for Carter? Bad timing for him more than anything, poor bastard. The end of Vietnam (all those war industry contracts lost), the space program winding down (more lost tech contracts) and oil embargoes. No one could have gone through that unscathed.
It didn’t help when Reagan/Bush1 cut a deal with the Ayatollah to hold the hostages until AFTER the 1980 election.
The way I see it, the only other people complaining besides Adobe are the designers and programmers who have hung their hat on Flash. They see this as a threat to their livelihood, they know their days are numbered, and they’re either too scared or too lazy to learn anything else. The evolve or die mantra applies to them as well as Adobe.
I think the only way Apple would be in the wrong is if they said “if you want to develop for Apple you must sign an agreement saying you can not develop for android” for example…
That clearly would be abuse of marketplace power – however that is not what is happening
Uh, Carter was, and still is a moron. And a bitter one at that. But the current guy is doing a good job of trying to top him.
And, Nixon would have been considered a liberal? In what alternative universe would that be? It’s the other way around. Many of the “liberal” Democrats back then would have been considered “conservative” by today’s standards.
I don’t like to see the comment sections deteriorate into political commentary, but geez, let’s not re-write history.
We are in the process of turning the Gulf into a lifeless cesspool. Our federal deficit will make our country bankrupt in a few years. Corporations are about to take over our elections. Our Congress is so disfunctional that they couldn’t pass a law stating that Tuesday comes after Monday. And on and on and on.
Yet, our government has time to consider going after the most innovative company in America that is absolutely loved by the great majority of its customers.
What is wrong with this picture?
Most importantly, developers are “forced” to write quality code that runs well on customers devices.
The consumer wins!!!
Yeah, as soon as MS allows Sony games to be played on the Xbox.
Adobe (and I’m sure it is) has really lost face in this battle. Instead of accepting the truth and moving forward to fix their lazy a$$’s, they want to litigate their stupidity. They’ve been to busy cashing checks and telling everyone how great they are instead of looking forward.
At this time, I can’t easily get by without their product but I am slowly leaning my way off the Adobe crack.
Even if iPod touch/iPad/iPhone constitutes a Monopoly, which I doubt very much, how the Hell is Apple restricting access to iPhone OS if Apple gives away the tools to write Apps for iPhone OS?
Adobe, forget about Flash, get your head out of your ass and work on 64 bit CS for Mac. That’s where the money is in the future.
Mr Reeeeeeeeee. You’ve been drinking the Coolaid again.
Mr Reeeee: huh? What’s up widdat?
Nice to see Bill’s therapy finally having an effect. I’d watch that twitch though.
@NHL
You are right on target. I haven’t seen any independent verification of the initial Post article. Maybe I missed it.
@An Optimist
“But I also realize that Eric Holder wants to cut out Steve Jobs’ liver and eat it with a fork.
Fortunately, Steve has a secret weapon in the White House: Rahm Emanuel. Rahm knows how to handle Holder, and knock him down as needed.”
What is the basis of these assertions?
Let’s see how this hurts developers. The free Xcode is required to develop apps for the leading mobileOS and costs nothing. Adobe CS5 is required to develop Flash based apps for the also-rans and beleaguered, and costs $750 or more.
Yea, I can see how free development tools are really hurting developers.
I have a great idea:
Adobe give away CDs with their Flash playing crap for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad along with Jail Breaking software for each device. Then you can run all the Flash garbage you want!
Golly gee, thanks Adobe for freeing us from the confines of Apple.
But don’t go sobbing to Apple when your battery life declines by an order of magnitude and your iDevice gets infected with Flash malware. Thank Adobe for that BS. Start up a class action lawsuit! It could not be more obvious why Apple want no part of Adobe’s Flash crapware.
There will be no antitrust action against Apple. But there will be customer revolt against Adobe. It’s already happening.
What about the extortion from CONcast & TimeWarner where you have to pay (& support) truckloads of bullshit channels you don’t want to get a handfull you do want?
Apple’s iTunes Store is in direct competition with the Cable/Satellite crooks & not a peep is forthcoming.
This is Apple’s world. Get rid of the terrorist Adobe with their terror bomb, Flash which always crashes the system. Would the US government tolerate Osama bin Ladin’s terrorist group to roam unimpeded throughout the United States in order to create havoc?
Gee I’m so happy to live in a world where Apple can get away with this blatant anti-competitive behavior and exhibit such control over their devices and so many people think this its OK.
This isn’t about the Flash ban, its about a cross-compiler ban !
In Adobe’s case, once compiled from a Flash source to an iPhone App, there is nothing of “Flash” remaining and it is a native iPhone app. So why does Apple have a problem with this ? Because the apps can easily be compiled to other platforms too. OMG no !
They are just being giant assholes.
Video game developers already have encountered this issue. For the most part, they just have to suck it up and develop for different platforms if they want to sell their games. Adobe doesn’t have a leg to stand on. If the Feds investigate Apple, they’ll have to investigate Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft for the exact same violations.