A few useful links regarding the Apple/Adobe feud

posted May 8th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform Discussion, Flash Platform News

In the last few weeks – in the wake of the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 5, Apple’s iPad and Steve Job’s fittingly timed (and most importantly, partly factually incorrect) attacks on the Flash technology – I’ve read so many blog posts discussed with so many people in direct conversations, courses, and on conferences about the matter that I’m actually getting pretty tired of it.

At first, I thought about putting my 2 cents here, but since almost all points I’d like to make have been uttered elsewhere already (with varying degrees of verbosity), I’ll simply post interesting links to those places instead. (more…)


Apple now has turned to the Dark Side of The Force

posted April 9th, 2010 by Constantin Ehrenstein in Flash Platform News

Yesterday, Apple announced a significant tweak to their iPhone OS developer license agreement, Section 3.3.1. Changes are highlighted: 3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the [...]