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Steve Jobs having a frank email exchange

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StreetSpirit:
Choice is obviously too much for the obvious Apple user anymore, at least in the eyes of Steve Jobs - his customers like what he likes, and that is all.

Haha.

..... but I, just like many of you (obviously) appreciate and thrive on choice!

Freedom from Freedom?

est:
What I don't get is that if you go into the options section on the iPhone you can turn on a passworded restriction to disabled installation/execution of apps based on a certain rating level.  Like, it's literally maybe four or five really logical, easily-found clicks.

I've said this before, but like, I would have a hell of a lot more respect for Jobs if he had the balls to out and out say "we currently don't allow Flash on the iPhone because Adobe are too lazy to provide us with a way to place restrictions on the content to ensure the revenue streams of our development partners" or someshit like that.  Trying to cover it up with other bullshit is terribly transparent and insults our intelligence.

Johnny C:
the technical thing seems like kind of a "fuck you" to every single entity who's ever programmed to flash though, because instead of finding a workaround to accommodate the existing internet apple has just said "the internet has to change to reflect our hardware" which is probably a pain in the ass for every single company who's ever invested in flash which, i must point out, is not an unreasonable programming standard

Johnny C:
i mean, ultimately the loser in the fight between hardware provider and content provider is going to be the end user

Catfish_Man:
Jeans: by Eric did you mean David? :)

Regarding the technical thing, yeah, it sucks. Security often fucks everything else in the ass. See also: captchas, cross-domain restrictions, password hassles, <insert rest of list of half the annoying things about computers here>. Turns out not every technical problem has a satisfactory solution.

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Adobe could theoretically write a faster interpreter to deal with not being able to use their JIT. Theirs is shit slow compared to JavaScriptCore. Apple can't really help them not suck though.
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Also even if they did it might still get killed for nontechnical reasons. I'm not nearly as good at nontechnical stuff, so no analysis there.
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