Posts by SF

Marmite of scripting languages PHP emits version 8.0, complete with named arguments and other goodies

Re: re: book

lolz

Dr. Dobb's Journal sails into the sunset - yet again

See you soon, Dr. Dobbs. I will be waiting for the memorable day when you come back online with a great new issue..

Firefox decade: Microsoft's IE humbled by a dogged upstart. Native next?

I like the idea of 'Native' - it will mean that processors will consume lower power while being as effective, maybe more. Definitely an enabler of The Internet of Things..

Cheers from Port au Prince, Haiti,

Steve Faleiro

Microsoft says 'weird things' can happen during Windows Server 2003 migrations

I *knew* that I should have been running RedHat / Samba for my domain... where is that backup DVD?

Office, IE and Windows in line for critical fixes from Redmond

Re: Nothing to see here...

Praise the Lord, Hallelujah! Repent, for the time is near..

:] Keep the peace!

Best regards,

Ballmer S.

IBM insider: How I caught my wife while bug-hunting on OS/2

What?! Did they let BOFH out of the asylum?

Exhibitionist Shamoon virus blows PCs' minds

Prevention

Would a security specialist sysadmin working at the site have been able to prevent this compromise? Just curious.

Meet the company that wants to destroy Twitter. It's Twitter

Look who's talking............

Steve Jobs issues open letter on Flash

OS Company vs. Tool Company

OS Company wins.

My analysis from this move by Apple is:

Adobe is a threat to Apple's business because:

1. Adobe's Flash product is seen as a threat to Apple's own developer tools, from which it draws revenue at present.

2. Apple's reputation is based on high quality experience for the users of its products. Part of the user experience is high quality user interfaces. Apple decides that it wants more control over the user interface available on its own platforms.

3. As Apple's product line is expanding, with the iPad being the latest, so too is the number of users of its products.

Since Apple's reputation and selling point is based on high standard of user experience, in the interest of its business, Apple decides to stop supporting Adobe's Flash as a user interface.

The immediate implications of Apple's move are website usability concerns - a huge number of people using Apple's products to surf the the web will not be able to surf existing Flash websites. Apple has not responded as to how it will placate these customers.

The best Adobe can do now is to take advantage of this move and devote more resources toward producing better quality tools for other platforms than Apple ie Microsoft, UNIX/Linux on the PC and the mobile platforms.

Adobe's Flash developer tools business is at risk with this decision. In the event that the market share lost as a result of not being on the Apple platform, would result in a great loss of revenue for Adobe, then Adobe could take a long-term decision now, and consider open-sourcing the Flash platform (only the Flash platform, not the developer tools), so that in time, the open-source community might develop it into something that will gain acceptance on Apples platform. As the platform is developing for the Mac, Adobe could then join the bandwagon and create or position its developer tools for the new open-source Flash, thereby regaining Apple platform market share.

What immediately develops from this decision remains to be seen. Adobe might file an anti-competitive lawsuit, but Apple is a bigger company and has more resources to fight long and hard.

Steve Faleiro

IT Consultant