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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
Those are all true, but so many porn sites use flash video, and from that statement it sounds like that's may well be one of Job's reasons reasons for wanting to keep Flash off the iPad and iPhone....
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Yep, the "porn" thing is Jobs' justification why he doesn't want to allow Flash (and presumably Java) and Adobe's cross-compiler.
The idea is, that if you had the choice of getting applications from sources other than the Apple's App Store, you may be seduced by sinful applications.
So, we should be grateful for the Great Leader, who watches over us. (Of course, the real reason is that He doesn't want to allow competition).
This is all part of a larger pattern, mind you. A while back Jobs banned all books published by John Wiley & Sons from the Apple Stores, because the publisher dared to publish an unauthorized biography of the Moral One.
From
The New York Times:
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... In an image-obsessed fit of pique, Apple Computer banished books published by John Wiley & Sons from the shelves of Apple's 105 retail stores recently because of Wiley's plan to publish an unauthorized biography of Jobs, the Apple chief executive.... "iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business," by Jeffrey Young and William Simon, which will go on sale this month.
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...the retaliation is hitting other authors who have never run afoul of Jobs. In the past few days, some two dozen popular technical titles, including "Dr. Mac: The OS X Files," "Garageband for Dummies" and "Macs for Dummies," by David Pogue, a columnist for The New York Times, were removed from Apple store bookshelves and returned to Wiley's distribution center in New Jersey...."