Wired to still use Adobe’s Flash tool for its iPad magazine application
24th April, 2010 by adina
Tags: Apple, Application, iPad, News
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Wired has reiterated its intention of using Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone tool for its magazine application meant to run on the iPad. Publisher Conde Nast affirmed there was cooperation with Adobe to improve the reader with the middleware but Apple’s iPhone 4.0 guidelines would be passed, which ban cross-compiling explicitly, like in the case of the Flash CS5. According to Nast, Wired and Adobe are working together to prepare the reader application for the iPad, while following Apple’s legal requirements.
There is no information that Wired has actually found an alternative to Apple’s guidelines or simply hopes to be given an exception thanks to its size and influence. Apple has not said how material built outside of Xcode and translated into a native application would be checked. It would probably rely on looking for recognizable code patterns in the first instance. Developers could theoretically modify code to mask the origins but practically this is not mandatory.
Conde Nast has probably counted on a write-once, publish-everywhere scheme in order to simplify the strategy of the digital magazine, as this would let the company choose whatever tablet is more practical. Android tablets would be advantaged be this move because the addition of AIR and Flash 10.1 would let them visualize magazines by using only the Flash tools.
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REALLY! Adobe does not care about the iPhone or iPad USERS! They care about the MARKET! I guess Wired is the same?!? I kinda like Wired -BUT- there are TONS of tech news sources. I will stick with Apple’s advice thanks – think maybe they understand the total h/w, s/w, systems issues better than a pub company and a s/w company – DUH!
Adobe does not care about the iPhone or iPad USERS – all they care about is being part of the cash flow – I am a long time Adobe product user -BUT- look at the CRAP that is Photoshop.com for the iPhone and Ideas for the iPad – useless crap with no real development or concern for the USERS.
Adobe should own that s/w creation market for mobile and instead the won’t make flash or flashlite work and they push crap apps on the USER. They are making money but the USER suffers.
Compare Autodesk Sketchbook Pro on the iPad or SBM on the iPhone – Autodesk QUIETLY made killer apps for the USERS – not the MARKET. Look at Freeform on the iPad from Stunt – a tiny company!!!
Really Adobe! Now Wired! Enjoy you money while politicking at the expense of USERS! Wow! I will go elsewhere!
If Wired got an execption due to it’s size and influence then I think there would be a rebellion among developers.
Sure greed is a strong motive but principles also guide many people. I say, screw the iPad and develop for Android. I think there will be a bunch of Android tablets soon and there already are a bunch of Android phones.