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It’s getting dirty out there; Adobe allows Android developers use of Photoshop, no iPhone
March 5, 2010 | by Chris Smith
Android News, Android OS, Free apps
Today Adobe announced that along with their recent Android update for Photoshop.com Mobile they are now going to allow developers full advantage of Photoshop.com and allow them to integrate it into their third-party applications. This will allow developers to “embed” all of the tools and photo editing option directly into their applications. The larger news here is that Adobe is purposely not supporting the iPhone platform.
Doug Mach, General Manager at Adobe says this:
Unlike iPhone, the Android platform allows us to make the Photoshop.com editor broadly available to developers so they can provide it within any application they are working on
This is an obvious “attack” on the iPhone OS as well as Apple as a whole for not giving the support that is needed to introduce the Flash platform. I am not going into the details of who is in the wrong here but this announcement along with the introduction of AIR and other developer tools for almost all other platforms is indication that Adobe will not support iPhone. Many are saying that HTML5 will kill off Flash but as of now Adobe Flash is still the platform to create rich web apps.
Other than that, I have to say that Photoshop.com Mobile is a useful application that can turn your run-of-mill phone pics into some seriously nice looking photos. Also, it isn’t fully featured; don’t think you are getting the whole Photoshop Suite!
Via [IntoMobile] Source [Adobe]
I don't see this a obvious attack.
In some way it's true that Android supports these intents where developers can hook up other apps while the iPhone doesn't support that from what I know.
Pointing out that Android can do this isn’t an attack. Using the words ‘Unlike iPhone’ while discussing a feature for a different platform, that is an attack.
You have to assume that general managers at companies as big as Adobe are well enough versed in what to say and what not to say, and PR people in what to repeat and what not to repeat, that those two words appearing in a press release is not just a factual aside, it’s a pointed remark.
I think Christopher is wong about Flash, though; there is no way Flash is ever going to be a viable developer platform for phones simply because nobody is going to put the work into giving Adobe dominance on their platform; not even Google.
The underlying performance optimisations for WebKit should benefit AIR, though.
Michael, I agree that Flash is not ideal for creating phone applications and we need something more lightweight yet robust. Hopefully HTML5 can bring that to the table. But I do think that Flash will be used on phones until we bridge the gap to HTML5. It isn't the ideal platform, but in my opinion it is the platform that we may have to use until something better comes along.
Well, we do have apps. And apps can do anything without flash. With the fragmentation of the mobile market and the fragmentation of android … i don´t really see how flash could work.
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It will really get ugly if Apple forces google to remove important parts of android, and all google apps including maps dissapear from the iphone. That would hurt google too, but it may be the only leverage they would have to protect android.
Apple will not go after Google for the simple fact that they use Google as the iPhone's default search engine. Conflict of interest maybe? Too bad Apple has no online presence whatsoever. It's quite funny to say the least.