Sorry. I love this too much. Public with no LJ-CUT.

[elfgrove]

Oh yeah, it's ON, bitchez - adobe's full page ad in the SF chronicle w/ the heading "we {heart} Apple." (via @debaoki)

WE <3 APPLE

We love creativity.
We love innovation.
We love apps.
We love the web.
We love our 3 million developers.
We love healthy competition.
We love touch screens.
We love our Open Screen Project partners.
We love HTML5.
We love authoring code only once.
We love all devices.
We love all platforms.

What we don't love is anybody taking away
your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it,
and what you experience on the web.

Adobe
Learn more at adobe.com/choice

Ze war, she is ON.
Can I get an OH SNAP?

Comments

[elfgrove.livejournal.com]

Oh. I'm sorry. You've missed the code minkee dramu that's exploded over the past couple of months.

Adobe and Mac started having issues back with Photoshop.
- Mac has leveled up their already Microsoft dictator evil overlord anti-competitive business practices to start blocking anyone they don't like from developing on their platform.
- Specifically, anything not developed from the get-go in an "Apple Approved Language" will not be allowed on Apple mobile devices/App store at all. This new stance is somewhat expected to move on to their other platforms soonish. Unapproved languages include Flash, C++, etc.
- Steve Jobs said in recent press conferences that they will never support Flash, Flash is dead and no one uses it, it is especially useless on the internet, has implied that Adobe is a dinosaur that essentially needs to be killed off, and that everyone should and will move over to these "open" and Apple-approved formats (h.264, HTML5, etc). These formats jobs approves coincidentally are "open" right now, but are patented such that they could be made closed at the will of the owners, and oh-hey-Jobs-has-partial-rights-ownership-in-them-haha-imagine-that.
- Steve Jobs decided to "clean up" the apps store removing any and all apps determined to contain "inappropriate content". He was also quoted as saying that if people wanted porn, they could buy an Android. Meanwhile Android said, thanks Steve, we'll happily take the extra user-base.
- Oh yes, Apple lawyer also sicced the police on a professional tech blogger's personal home, breaking down the door, confiscating equipment, and etc using a turned-out-to-be invalid warrant after a found iPhone 4 prototype was willingly returned to them as soon as they requested it and the prototype was no longer in said blogger's possession.
- And much much more, but those are the biggest ones.

It has been everyone now sees Apple-turning/is-evil-and-anti-competitive shit fest for months now.

[katielovespink.livejournal.com]

DAMN, I have missed a lot!! I wonder why Jon and Stephen haven't been talking about this, since they're my only source of news. XD I want to discuss it with Cliff now. As an IP lawyer, I bet he'll have a lot to say.

[akogarezephyr.livejournal.com]

I honestly had no idea there was a war to begin with. I don't really care for the matter because I dislike drama and don't know about the situation as a whole. Nor am I going to find out. I mean, it's not like it's the first time companies went after each other in an in-your-face and/or [pseudo-]behind-the-scenes styles. What I will say, like I say for all the other unnecessary happenings, is that it's most unfortunate.

Thanks for the information. I didn't quite understand the post at first, but this explains it now. I is no stupid no more. (?)