Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapter of the web"

Re:Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapte... by misuba on Thursday May 13, 2010 @12:05PM (#1344630)

"We publish the specifications for Flash — meaning anyone can make their own Flash player. Yet, Adobe Flash technology remains the market leader because of the constant creativity and technical innovation of our employees."

Read: our player remains the only viable one because we keep moving the goalposts on everyone else.

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Re:Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapte... by bbatsell on Thursday May 13, 2010 @12:12PM (#1344650)

Also: because they're lying — they don't publish the full Flash spec. Any alternate Flash implementation simply doesn't work on video sites with encrypted streams, which means it will never gain traction.

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Re:Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapte... by misuba on Thursday May 13, 2010 @12:24PM (#1344689)

Oddly, such a Flash player would probably do fine on major mobile platforms.

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Re:Adobe attacks Apple - "You're undermining the next chapte... by WiseWeasel on Thursday May 13, 2010 @01:53PM (#1345003)

It's the latest build of the runtime they need to open up, not the file format spec.

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