Adobe complains to the feds...
And so it begins…
So, let just say for the sake of this discussion that Adobe wins and the US Gov. orders Apple to allow Flash and Flash-written apps for the iPhone together with any framework-crappy-dev-platform-independent thing you can use to write an iPhone app.
Now you have a horde of developers that don’t really understand how the iPhone OS works or how an app should behave or the limitations of a mobile OS. They can now write applications to the iPhone in the same way they can write an application for Windows. To quote Brando in Apocalypse Now:The horror… The horror…
Imagine that for a second. Developers in the Big OS’s world don’t care about memory management or garbage collection or any secure coding. They are used to the crappy framework supplying those things for them. Hence they use all available memory, even when there is no need, they don’t crash gracefully, they take everything with them. They don’t care about UI and being consistent with the rest of the OS or apps, no… They write their own super-duper-ultra-delux horrendous UI and they think it’s cool because it has transparency here and flashing LEDs there…
Let’s continue here. I feel that the Wii has a monopoly over the Wii games so I will complain to the Feds and hopefully they will let me write a game for the PlayStation and convert it to the Wii via a multi-platform framework… Yeah! Now I can do it! Now I can write PlayStation games for the Wii! With minimal conversion! That’s awesome!
What? It’s crashing your Wii? Oh… it’s your problem, I was told that the framework allows me to write Wii games the easy way and that I didn’t have to learn about the Wii platform at all… Oh well… It’s your problem, not mine.
You see my point?
