Adobe to Apple: ‘Go screw yourself’
By Dean • Apr 15th, 2010 • Category: Industry News
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The war of words, and platforms, between Adobe, who are set to release Photoshop CS5 soon, and Apple has become full-blown, with an Adobe platform designer telling Apple where to get off.
The license agreement amendment
In a recent amendment to the developer agreement in the iPhone 4.0 SDK, Apple stated that developers were no longer allowed to create their iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch apps in a programming language different from the ones specified by Apple. This means even if there was an intermediary solution for compiling an application in Apple’s specified program it wouldn’t be enough.
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The major problem, especially for Adobe, is they’ve spent millions in R&D and development costs in recent months developing a solution for Flash developers to port their wares onto Apple’s platform.
Go screw yourself, Apple
This rift came to a head with Adobe Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow, capping off an angry blog post with ‘Go screw yourself Apple’. The post’s core focus was to bring those not in the know up to speed about the implications of Apple’s SDK agreement, as well as make it clear that Apple was trying to exert ‘tyrannical control over developers’, wanting to use developers as ‘their pawns in their crusade against Adobe’.
He drew the line in the sand by implying you either stand with Adobe or you don’t, and if you don’t, then you cannot consider yourself a real developer.
How did we get here?
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The sad part in all of this is that Apple and Adobe long relied on each other to make their platforms attractive. The creative industries have long been associated with Apple’s computers running Adobe’s software, most notably Photoshop. The problem is developers are stuck between a rock and a hard place in deciding which way they fall.
What makes this all particularly sad is that Photoshop CS5 is looking set to be the biggest version release since Photoshop 7, and to not have the long-standing Mac partnership will be odd to many a Mac designer.
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