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Adobe to Apple and My Response

Adobe Said:

What is clear is that Apple has timed this purposely to hurt sales of CS5. This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple’s devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D. […] Now let me put aside my role as an official representative of Adobe for a moment as I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple.

I Say:

Adobe, get over it… Flash is the Ed Hardy hat of the internet, think of all the crappy flash sites we had to deal with since the 90s and then the clients that wanted such sites. Sure streaming music players are cool but y’know, there are other ways to do that without flash now, and HTML5 is on the way so whatever. Every since you bought Macromedia you became like microsoft, feature piling and crappy interfaces. Photoshop is great but I’d happily take an Apple product that gets back to simplicity instead of your bloatware. I already use Pixelmator for smaller stuff, so I’m ready to take the jump. Get over yourself and get over Flash. And for the love of Grog, make your applications affordable so normal freelancers can afford your stuff- trust me, when it’s reasonable - people won’t pirate.