Steve Jobs to Valleywag at 2:20 AM: “Why are you so bitter?”
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Burn.
You have the chance to set the tone for a new platform. For the new phone and tablet platform. The platform of the future! I am disappointed to see it’s the same old revenge power bullshit.
By the way, what have you done that’s so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
(Emphasis added) Jobs mentions several times it's a business decision for the platform made to create a good customer experience. Incidentally, I wouldn't be bothered by a scientist who had that attitude, if he was given vague criticism by someone without a physics background.
Which application do you want to write that oh so really demands Flash and would give users better experience than going native?
I don't believe such an application exists!
"When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create."
Jobs is a human being. How would you like it if you poured yourself into creating the best platform experience that you think is possible, and you find all around you critics that sound to you as if they are saying "fuck you for only making me a chocolate cake, bake me one with strawberries on top!"
Exactly the selection of what makes his platform is what makes it unique and, to people who buy the product, better than other offerings.
I don't have an IPhone but I can understand that having lots of applications in the store and not knowing whether an application you try would be slow or fast would really feel like a lottery. It's sad because the adobe flash tool are great animation tools, and I don't know of anything coming close on the Iphone.
The impact on the battery would be unsolvable too. Sometimes it's better to avoid issues.
That simply is not true. Flash on Android does not destroy the battery, going off of what testers, developers have reported as well as the video demo that plays video in Flash for a while and shows the impact on the battery life.
Also, your comment does not speak to the fact that Apple is banning the Flash-to-native iPhone app compiler. That does not fall victim to the Flash-is-slow scenario you're offering.
Also, poorly written Flash apps can be slow. Poorly written iOS apps can be slow as well.
Yes, the flash to native ban suck but it's probably not the way the flash works on the iphone with cs5 given the performance I've seen. As a programmer, it has no sense to vorbid a language, as every language are sort of equivalent in the end.
I would like to see flash works on iphone, and androids but the current port is slow for even the simplest thing. Even a single movie clip was slow on what I've seen. It's not possible to write a responsive flash app if even that is slow. There is no code, it can't be poorly written...
If anything, not making anything means you are less likely to be biased. Steve likes the iPad because he made it, not because it's intrinsically good. This biases his views on how it affects the software world.
Anyway, making something is good, but not making doesn't mean that your commentary on other people's products is not useful.
It means you don't have credibility to start with.
That seems be contradicted by his $1/year salary.
The "but developers can choose whether they want to write their programm for iPhone OS or for other platforms"-argument is so ridiculous, it makes me cry. In practice people have no choice but to develop for iPhone OS (because it's the biggest app platform) and then, if money/time/effort allows, write a second app for the rest of the world. And i think, as a developer i can complain and bitch all day about it, even if it won't change something. Of course, Steve can do whatever he likes with the platform. If developers like that is another question.