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Old May 8, 2010 | 11:15 pm
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Funny... when I point out that Blackberry has far more users the apple cult members put their fingers in their ears and deny it to the death. But point out how apple uses it's outsize influence over the mobile app market to the detriment of developing apps that can be used across multiple platforms and all of a sudden apple is irrelevant. Apparently 200,000 iphone apps vs 5,000 blackberry apps doesn't constitute a dominant position in the mobile app space. Well, I hope apple is irrelevant and I'll be quoting you

So far I haven't heard anything to prove that flash is buggy on anything except MacOS. I haven't ever had a flash problem with Windows and Firefox - but what do I know. I won't even deny that flash may be a horrible technology. Not saying it is - but not denying it could be. I'm just saying that Apple appears to be using its influence in ways inappropriate to protect it's dominant position in the mobile app market by preventing any development platform which could be used to make device independent apps. It isn't only Flash - it is any system which provides a layer of abstraction between the OS and the app. Other examples include Java and .NET
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