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Dear Mr. Jobs (a personal response from a flash developer to Section 3.3.1)
This is reply to Apples change of rules for iPhone developers:
To be honest, I never really liked Apple products. I always liked the design, but not the restrictions and the disciples.
When the company I worked for gave all employees an iphone I was very sceptical. But it turned out that I got very used to this gadget that really does feel very nice. Apart from the fact that it was the end of me listening to music outside, because iTunes tried to take all life out of my PC, I enjoyed playing around with it and surfing the web.
Also the concept of the Appstore seemed amazing to me. An opportunity to sell small programs to a worldwide group of iPhone-users with not too many restrictions sounded better the more I thought about it.
Despite being a flash-developer, I considered looking into Objective-C, but simply up to now did not have the time to do so. Obviously it was great news for me when Adobe announced the iPhone-compiler for the upcoming Flash CS5 last year. Ever since that news I had been looking forward to this release…
As you well know, three days before the release you changed the rules, making all the work Adobe put into this feature pretty much worthless. To many this felt like a slap in the face of Adobe. Sitting aside, watching someone else work and getting their hopes up, just to crush all hope in the very last stage. This reminds me of a big slow kid in the playground that destroys the sand-castles of the other kids when they’re almost done.
But this is not only a slap in the face of Adobe, it is a slap in the face of all flash developers. So this is my reply to your actions: F*** you Mr. Jobs! Or in the words of Lee Brimelow: “Go screw yourself Apple”
