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Originally Posted by scottjl
lol.. you know. i wish the mac OS would run windows programs without the need for fusion or parallels. for those who don't need the compatability, they don't have to run it. Heck, Apple could warn me that running Windows programs in the MacOS could render it unstable.
but apple's contempt for its own customers prods them to insist on them running macintosh native applications.
the nerve of them.
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I don't understand the relevance of what you wrote here. I never wrote anything about native Windows applications. I was talking about flash, and flash is not system-specific. Adobe would have the responsibility of making flash work with the iPad's OS, not Apple, and I'm sure they'd be happy to do it.
You know, Scott, really, you don't need to agree with everyone here about these issues, but you need to respond with intelligent argument, instead of sarcasm. That does not further the discussion. How could anyone's suggestions made on here be properly met with the response, "oh, you don't like it, write your own OS." That's not a helpful or intelligent reply.
And the issues discussed here do have relevance even for those of us who have already voted with our wallets and chosen not to buy Apple products ourselves. I made a lengthy post about how iPad's non-support of flash, coupled with its ironically
atrocious implementation of HTML5, has lead to serious headaches for me as an amateur web designer, just by trying to reach out to this population. What I would like from a defender of Apple is an explanation of why they put us in such a position, and some encouragement and reason to think they are going to do something to rectify it. Telling me to write my own OS is not a helpful reply. Even if I did write my own OS, I'd still want my content to be available to those using Apple's OSes.