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well, maybe the Google Nexus One?

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I really have had enough of Apple and I think a lot of people are starting to - Apple’s becoming more and more of a paranoid, bullshit company. They’re suing instead of innovating, setting the Gestapo on bloggers who have already sent the tech back and treating their developers like dogshit. It’s like Don Jobbso is setting the company up to fail the second he retires so that he feels like he was important (which is clearly is to Apple).

I used to be the BIGGEST Apple fanboy alive - I took part in every ridiculous motorola v intel processor debate, expounded the virtues of OS9 over Windows 95 and forwent a pc gaming fix in favour of pretty hardware but I just can’t overlook the fact that now that Apple has become a major player in the gadget market, it’s completely drunk with power. 

When they got rid of floppies and scsii drives, it seemed like a revelation but maybe I was wrong all along…

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I’m afraid I have to take umbrance with some of his points:

First, there’s “Open”.

Apple is not open. Using freeBSD doesn’t make it open. Creating WebKit doesn’t make it open. Implementing sandboxed Objective C with a locked down API doesn’t make it open. And stopping developers using their platform of choice to develop for the iShiny platform does not make it open. Heck, even the approval process for the appstore is a black box.

This is a marketing trick from the master of marketing.

He says Apple is open and Adobe isn’t but neither is open. The difference is that Adobe doesn’t make money on every application I make with the free and Open Source Flex SDK and the free FlashDevelop editor I use whereas Apple does make money on every app I sell through the only channel available to me as an iPhone dev.

 Second, there’s the “full web”.

 In other words, we want you to use / buy apps from our impenetrably closed appstore and not Flash applications and games which we make no money on. When iAd launches, all advertising will be through them and then they will make money on the apps I create and sell for free.

Third, there’s reliability, security and performance.

Apple has only just recently given Adobe any kind of help in giving Flash hardware acceleration and Adobe has leapt on it in a non-lazy, thankyouverymuchsquire kinda way with Gala.

Another point that is glossed over is JavaScript’s performance as a scripting language. I’ll be the first to admit that Flash has caused my old mac to slow down a fair amount when chugging through someone’s enthusiastic but ultimately poorly-written code but it’s only been in the last couple of years that JavaScript has been executing with any kind of vigour at all! In Don Jobbso’s perfect HTML5 world, where all scripting is JavaScript, we’ll all be moaning about web-designers wanting too much from that instead of Flash. The current tests for HTML 5 aren’t that great and who knows where we’ll be with Flash in 3-5 years when HTML5′ll actually be ready for general use.

Fourth, there’s battery life.

Well, Google has been working closely with Adobe to make sure that Flash has as little impact on the battery life of their Android phones as possible. So have many handset manufacturers. Apple has not. If Apple was sincere about this point then they would be involved, if only to see how it was going.

 Fifth, there’s Touch.

Now this is where this turns from a scathing attack to simple FUD. Don Jobbso’s assertions that Flash isn’t multitouch compatible is simply incorrect. And to say that if devs have to rewrite their sites to use it then why don’t they move them over to HTML5 is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I mean, instead of changing your keyboard, why don’t you buy a whole new computer? That said, I’m sure Don Jobbso would like you to buy a new computer.

Sixth, the most important reason.

And finally…

This is the crux of Herr Jobs final point. He stresses that cross compiled code is bad although this isn’t bourne out by the fact that the latest version Unity 3d will support cross compilation from iPhone to Xbox 360 to Android. Unity does go through Xcode, however, but there’s still some double-standards there.

This is unreal. It seems that Apple doesn’t hold itself to the same standards as it holds Adobe. Apparently Adobe needed to get all of their code up to date but Apple doesn’t need to do anything about iTunes or Final Cut Pro, both of which are still Carbon applications or the fact that OSX itself only went Cocoa with 10.6. It seems that it’s Apple rather than Adobe lagging behind. And let’s not talk about when the print industry, which was heavily influenced by QuarkXpress which refused to convert to Carbon (much less Cocoa) with version 5, moved wholesale to Adobe InDesign on mac. Why? Because Adobe, having seen that Apple, reinvigorated by a newly reistated Don Jobbso, was worthwhile supporting, moved over to the still-infant operating system!

Oh and by the way, I’m not your developer.

What happened to you, Apple? You used to be cool.

When Apple was the underdog to the behemoth Microsoft, it’s cheeky jabs and plucky obstinance were gleeful and appealing but now that Apple has become the big kid on campus, it turns out that the cocky rebel was just another big bully after all.

Shame really.

EDIT: The BBC have taken a brief response from Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen.

EDIT: I found a side by side comparison of the HTML5 canvas tag and Flash Player 10.1 on a desktop computer and a Google Nexus One here.

EDIT: Here is the WSJ’s interview with Shantanu Narayen.

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which is a response to this video

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which although less accomplished had me grinning from ear to ear for the entire thing(thanks Stew)

EDIT: another group of kids showing the adults in adland how it’s done

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adlands pathetic attempts to reproduce this is embarrassing:

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• Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm.
• Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
• William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
• William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
• David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
• Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
• Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
• Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
• Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
• Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
• Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
• Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.

EDIT: thought this would be useful

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Apple has been building the iPhone as a new kind of computer: slick, mass-market, multi-touch, futuristic and utterly, utterly closed to anyone wanting to do anything that Apple hasn’t already envisaged for it.

I’ve been researching and learning about Cocoa Touch for some projects of my own, one of which would probably take a couple of months but would be amazing on the platform, but after what happened to Google, I just can’t afford to commit that kind of time to something that Apple has given itself the right to reject because ‘we just want to - your userbase isn’t cool like us’.

I’ve been told from numerous sources that it really isn’t that bad, but the problem is that I won’t find out if it is or isn’t until I’m the one in the financial hole waiting for Apple to pull me out by approving my effort.

Seriously, I’m thinking Android on the HTC Hero (with Flash, I might add) for my next business phone and move all of my apps onto my old iPod Touch (or simply retain my old iPhone in the bottom of my bag for when I want to play Monkey Island which pretty much relegates it to the same, slightly dusty position on the shelf with my PSP.

I can’t believe I just wrote that…

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