Yesterday we published Steve Jobs thoughts on Flash and today we’re publishing that the FTC is looking at Apple for potentially violating antitrust laws. The Apple directive in question is the one that recently stated only Apple products can be used to make programs for it’s devices. In the past people would build games in Flash then convert them to an iPhone friendly version that did not use Flash. Apple recently stated…
3.3.1 — Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited). -ars techica
But as Ars points out they are really going after Adobe Flash CS5 which was capable of porting straight to the iPhone software compiler. Basically Steve and the crew don’t want flash touching their device or software at any stage of the game even though many users have already been successfully running apps built this way (using non Apple tools) for quite some time successfully.
Should be fun to watch the hearings on TV.
via|theinquirer
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2 Comments at "Here we go! Apple Antitrust"
Wow, the gov’t sticking their noses into business that’s best left to the market? Let me put on my look of shock and surprise. I guess it’s too much to expect them to go solve *real* problems that are actual gov’t business.
I have always been a big fan of Apple, but honestly, I think they are grown too huge and now they are starting to dictate the market.. And I really dislike such tendency!
It’s not about Flash.. It’s about promoting their own tools such as HTML5 and H.264 coding..
Not good, Apple!
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