During last week’s town hall, Jobs also took a swipe at Adobe Flash – still absent from the iPhone and apparently absent from the iPad as well. “They are lazy,” Jobs allegedly said of Adobe. They have all this potential to do interesting things, but they just refuse to do it…Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy…

“Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash…The world is moving to HTML5.”

This was taken from an article at theregister.

I have to say though, the guy has a point. I have been working with Flex now for a couple of years and we have found A LOT of bugs and errors with the platform and are always having to find a work-around. I started imagining the situation when Adobe thought up Flex. I just imagine this meeting where everyone is sitting around this big table scratching their heads about what to do next. “Why don’t we create a ‘framework’ that let’s people do these new RIA thingy majingies. We can just build it right on-top of flash with hardly no work at all”. That explains why its near on impossible to create real powerful applications. It turns out that Silverlight was actually thought about properly and designed and implemented from the bottom up correctly. I really wish that Adobe would sort out a lot of the problems it has with Flash. I mean we’re at version 3 of Flex now and its still buggy. Version 4 is about to come out soon so we will have to see if it gets any better. I doubt it will though for the security model (where most of my issues lie) as this is within the flash engine itself. We all know that Flash has had some (and most likely still does) incredibly shit security holes. It seems to me that they have just patched it up non-stop to fix the issue at hand. Some things we have tried to do are just impossible and I have found that the security model contradicts itself in many places.

I would like to end it on a positive note though. There are a lot of things that I do like about Flex and Flash or else I would never use it at all. I just wish that the player itself would have a complete rewrite going forward with perhaps a compatibility mode so the older stuff still works.

UPDATE.

As we suggested recently, the myriad bugs that over the past few years have routinely imperiled the entire internet have made Adobe the Toyota of the software industry. Company security personnel seem intent of correcting the problems, but the only way for that to happen is to launch a comprehensive initiative that makes a top-to-bottom review of the company’s entire code base.

It would seem that things are just getting worse for Adobe and other people are also suggesting that Adobe revamp their whole product security.

I can’t believe that Apple actually has in its iPhone SDK agreement a part that stipulates that you can’t distribute “frameworks”. I can’t possibly see the point of this at all. If I came up with what I thought was a really good framework that helps you to build applications much more stable and faster, wouldn’t this be a good thing to share? Wouldn’t it benefit the entire community? It makes sense now why I haven’t seen any frameworks for the iPhone – I always thought this was a little strange because usually there are ones out within days for other platforms. I just can’t believe how many draconian rules have have stipulated for their SDK, it just goes to show that there really is no better alternative at the moment, because otherwise I can’t fathom why developers would stick around.

I have found out though that it is Ok to share sample code, so you can show people an example app that includes your framework and then let them use it from there. This technically means you are not actually distributing the framework but merely sharing code. This is another example of how dumb the rules are, if you can get away with doing it by calling it something else why not just let people do it properly?

Now I have to mention something about Apple’s app review process. The link provided above is from Joe Hewitts blog – he is a facebook employee who develops their app for the iPhone. It is pretty much agreed that the facebook application is probably the best and most useful free app available on the iPhone (Perhaps best of all apps – who knows). They have just finalised their version 3 application and released it to the store for review – now being an important app you would think that it would have been green lighted pretty fast wouldn’t you? Well nearly two weeks have passed and still nothing. I mean how messed up is that? He has a little rant about the process and I agree with him that the process should be scrapped altogether – go and read the post for the full story. Even techcrunch have been getting angry emails about it all.

First of all I will start by saying that I like the new Apple Macbook Air, I like it a lot. But why oh why are we getting ripped off once again. It’s not that the laptop is too much money, because when you compare it to the Sony equivalent they are about the same price, which is unusual for apple as they normally like charging loads more. It’s just that the price in the states is $1799 which as of this morning works out to £919.68. But somehow the price is magically £1199. Thats almost £300 more! Actually it is more like £200 because of our difference in VAT which they have no control about. The thing is, they will still give us all this shit about how it costs more to do business here. How the hell does it cost £200 more to do business here, thats just utter crap. So they are telling me that it somehow costs them ~20% more to do business here than in the states. I just don’t believe it. Jesus the plane must come over head here from China, so cant they just push a few off. That should save them some money From what I understand, there are also certain tax breaks for computer equipment, thats why Sony made sure that their Playstation 3 was classed as a computer and not just a gaming system. One thing is for sure though, I wouldn’t like to be in Germany at the moment because they are getting charged 1699 EUR which equates to £1282.83! That’s only because of the increase of the Euro because they used to have things cheaper than us when the pound was the strong currency. The thing is i can sort of understand a slight increase for the foreign markets because they have to get things translated and different hardware etc, but we are English – the same bloody language. I know there are certain subtleties but we shouldn’t have to absorb these costs – especially for the French

So basically i think you can safely assume that I wont be buying an Air anytime soon. But it would work out the same price to get a flight to the states, stay there one night, but a n air and come back. Thats the same price thank you and a weekend trip. makes you think doesn’t it. But for me, the main reason is because I am brassic and I wish that I have £1200 to spend on anything to be honest

Update: I had noticed but forgot to mention that they are charging £9 for that little shitty remote that comes for free with the other laptops. I think they have definitely got their ripoff hats on for this one.