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Originally Posted by photon
And Apple would be right.. I can't really see how Adobe could make a case out of it, but I guess we'll see.
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Originally Posted by photon
I guess the only difference there is Microsoft was/is within percentage points of the entire PC market, and while Apple represents within percentage points of the entire mobile app market, they are only 25% of the smart phone market.
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I think you kind of answered your own question there. Adobe probably will argue that Apple has a monopoly on mobile apps.
All this makes me wonder how early in the process Apple was made aware of Adobe's plans to make a flash-to-iphone-app tool. It's seem illogical that they wouldn't contact Apple before even starting the process and asking Apple if they were okay with it before investing so much time and money in it.
If this was the case then a couple possibilities exist. Apple told Abode 'no' and Adobe went ahead and did it anyway. This would force Apple's to either grudgingly accept it or to make some sort of legal manouver to block it, since there was no way to do it technically, and look like a bunch of tyrants to the app development community. And of course changing the SDK would open the door to a potential law suit.
The other possibility is that Apple told Adobe 'yes' and then tried to block them anyway in a direct attempt to sabotage their business.
The last possibility is that Adobe went about all this in secret figuring that there are other apps that already do similar things so they'd be allowed in too. But I just can't see Adobe being that naive. I would think that any company making a big investment that depends on a third-party, would divulge their plans to that third-party first. I've built a lot of applications myself based around third-party SDKs and I'm always, always in contact with the vendor of that SDK -- not necessarily to ask for permission but to iron out technical issues or ask questions about what's supported and what isn't and issues like these.
Clearly both companies are engaged in some shady behaviour here, I just don't know who is worse.