Apple has posted Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash“. There are a lot of lies and half truths. No one will care. The article has enough valid points that people won’t check up on them.
That said, here’s my attempts to correct the lies.
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Cocoa Chronicles #1: ActionScript vs. Objective C
*** Update: Paul Taylor (@guyinthechair) has a more recent post on the same subject. ***
*** NOTE: I’m a n00b at Cocoa and Objective C. Unlike Python, I don’t like learning it, either. If you perceive something below is inaccurate, please comment, and I’ll update. ***
Preface
I was having a lot of fun using the iPhone packager. Then Apple changed their licensing to prevent people like me from using ActionScript for iPhone/iPad, and instead being forced to use their toolsets, or those unofficially approved. At first I was furious. Then I tried to get a simple list to scroll in AS3. Even using a fake mask, device fonts, and cacheAsBitmap for all items + container, it just wasn’t smooth, even with just 30 items, regardless of frame rate. If you use an out of the box UITableView in Cocoa, it “just works”.
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What I Learned From Microsoft MIX 2010
*** I apologize for the “…”; this is a stream of conscious post about my experiences. Â Some of it is cohesive, some not. ***
I attended Microsoft’s MIX 2010 conference in Las Vegas the week after 360Flex. Â I had previously attended I think the 2007 or 2008 one. Â I had actually recorded a lot of video from the first one and trashed all of it. Â The 200x one was an EXTREMELY weird conference. Â It occured in the Venetian, the same hotel that Adobe’s MAX was at. Â So, I had the opportunity to see the vibe differences between the 2 communities, and whoa man… what a difference.