> Like thousands of other developers, Joe Rheaume was excited to get his software – an educational game – onto Apple’s iPhone. > > He originally created the game using Flash, a popular multimedia technology from Adobe Systems. But Apple prohibits Flash on the iPhone, so Rheaume was set to use a new conversion tool from Adobe that would make his game compatible with the smart phone. > > Then about a week ago, Apple changed the rules: No conversion tools. Developers must use Apple’s tools. > > “It just feels insulting,” said Rheaume, a programmer from…

> The “section 3.3.1” issue is just another in a long line of events that have the same basic shape: actions taken by Apple in what it believes to be the best interest of its platform (and, by extension, itself) that run afoul of the interests and opinions of developers. Any Apple follower can surely list others: the [lack of Flash](http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/apple_adobe_flash) on the iPhone, the App Store as the [sole gateway](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydia_(application)) for iPhone applications,…

> The talks with AMD could also be part of a competitive leveraging strategy to keep Intel interested in retaining Apple’s core business, similar to how the company has been rumored to be discussing plans [to use Microsoft’s Bing search](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/20/apple_microsoft_in_talks_to_make_bing_default_iphone_search_report.html) engine in preference to Google’s on the iPhone. via [appleinsider.com](http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/16/apple_in_advanced_discussions_to_adopt_amd_chips.html)…

> The iPad’s Web share grew steadily from April 3 until the weekend following the launch, April 10 and 11. At that time, the number peaked at 0.04 percent both days before settling back down as users went back to work. Comparatively, NetApplications recorded an average of 0.04 percent for BlackBerry devices over the [month of March](http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8), while all versions of Android together came in at 0.07 percent, as did Windows Mobile. via [arstechnica.com](http://arstechnica.com/apple/…

> **Steve Jobs has seen enough in his 34 years in the computer business** to know, deeply, that he doesn’t want to be at the mercy of cross-platform tools that could erase Apple’s competitive advantage. He doesn’t want to wait and beg and bitch and moan until Adobe supports the registers on Apple’s player organ. (Diplomatically or not, [Jobs recently called Adobe “lazy”](http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/)… But that was *intra muros*, in an internal all-hands company meeting.) > Does anyone mind that Jobs…