And moving Photoshop to Cocoa took so long that Apple lost all faith in Adobe's ability to deliver a good experience on Cocoa Touch.
This is bloody hilarious and looks like the author has no experience writing real applications. He seems to think a re-write of a complex app like PS is a trivial task.
BTW, before Apple can claim to lose faith in Adobe, it needs to port it's own Pro app, not consumer apps, like Final Cut Pro etc. to 64 Bit Cocoa. Apple itself hasn't migrated it's own Pro apps to 64 bit.
Even Gruber seems to be relatively neutral on this: http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/64000_question
The one and only reason for no Flash and Java on iPad, and iPhone for that matter, is Apple likes closed system where they can control everything and don't want to give up their 30% cash cow.
All other reasons are excuses IMHO.
Why should Apple care about what it takes to re-write a complex app? If Apple can go without the pain, why shouldn't they?
Sometimes it sucks having a huge portfolio of hard to repurpose application code. Eventually the programming world will figure out how to write compact, easily refactorable code. But why should everyone wait till then.
This blog is harsh but logical.
The one and only reason for no Flash and Java on iPad, and iPhone for that matter, is Apple likes closed system where they can control everything and don't want to give up their 30% cash cow. All other reasons are excuses IMHO.
I don't think the author is saying much different in the end. It's just there are certain advantages to having locked-down platform - especially quality control.
I'm totally down with open source alternatives but we need to understand that there's no reason for Joe average to tolerate the standard bullshit that the programming world has gotten used to.
This is bloody hilarious and looks like the author has no experience writing real applications. He seems to think a re-write of a complex app like PS is a trivial task.
BTW, before Apple can claim to lose faith in Adobe, it needs to port it's own Pro app, not consumer apps, like Final Cut Pro etc. to 64 Bit Cocoa. Apple itself hasn't migrated it's own Pro apps to 64 bit. Even Gruber seems to be relatively neutral on this: http://daringfireball.net/2008/04/64000_question
The one and only reason for no Flash and Java on iPad, and iPhone for that matter, is Apple likes closed system where they can control everything and don't want to give up their 30% cash cow. All other reasons are excuses IMHO.