matthew House

@maati

That's just wrong. I can "bridge the gap" on my iPhone 4 and not lose any bars at all. I can hold it in the "death grip" and not lose my call.

I'm not calling you or anyone else a liar but, no, every iPhone 4 does not experience.

@darthgault

The vast majority of people clearly aren't having that problem. My experience has been exactly the opposite of what you are describing. I am an an adjunct professor and I've used the iPad on WiFi at least six different elementary school, middle school, and college networks without a hiccup.

I would love to hear if other iPad owners have had trouble playing HTML 5 video...haven't heard this anywhere else.

@darthgault

You're doing it wrong.

You must be talking about poor connection speed. HTML5 video plays back perfectly, smoothly, and gorgeously on an iPad. You can scrub through from beginning to end within a few seconds of buffering.

Maybe you should check your connection or take your iPad in for repair.

How can you tell when someone is full of crap? When they speak in generalizations and platitudes instead of specifics. Please go check out Adobe's response to Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash. Then see if you can find a single coherent specific response to a single point Jobs made.

Spoiler alert: you won't.

Here is what you get from the company whose 20 year old software still costs a thousand bucks:

"When markets are open, anyone with a great idea has a chance to drive innovation and find new customers."
"We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs."
"When markets are open, anyone with a great idea has a chance to drive innovation and find new customers."

Hey, John and Chuck, do you believe in my MacBook being able to play a video without pegging the processor? Or how about a stable, usable mobile version of Flash now that the iPhone has been out three years?

No? Cool. Keep talking about puppies and rainbows then. Maybe that will work out for ya.

@ECH

Yes, your droid phone that also can't use real Flash.

@jakeZ

So your response is that, yes, it runs on one high end phone?

@KULawHawk
He can bitch about it because, as you'd know if you read the letter with any degree of precision at all, because he isn't arguing anything should be open except for the internet.

"Apple has many proprietary products too. Though the operating system for the iPhone, iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open."

@brrip

Superb. Your thoughtful refutation of Steve's points have doubtlessly changed everyone's opinions.

@MarkAnderson

Bluntly, your understanding of the current state of the tech industry is badly out of date. Other than Google, there is no technology company on Earth more influential than Apple right now.

Apple's market cap makes it the fourth largest company in the US and the second most valuable tech company, trailing only Microsoft.

Apple has something like 70% of all the smartphone internet traffic. And of all the apps sold on all the smartphones, Apple's store accounts for 99.4 % of them.

Even in the traditional desktop/laptop market (which I guess is why you're labeling Apple as 'fairly incidental') where Apple has single digit market-share, they have and amazing 30 percent revenue share. Meaning while they only sell 6 or 7 percent of all PCs, they make 30 percent of the money.

There isn't a single tech company, with the debatable exception of Google, that wouldn't trade places with Apple right now.

And, of course, the most important point of all. If Adobe doesn't consider Apple's exclusion of Flash from it's mobile devices to be a threat, why on Earth have they bitched about it bitterly for the last three years since the release of the iPhone?

Why would they put this in a recent SEC filing: "Additionally, to the extent new releases of operating systems or other third-party products, platforms or devices, such as the Apple iPhone or iPad, make it more difficult for our products to perform, and our customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies, our business could be harmed."

Fanboyism aside, Apple is *extremely* important an powerful in the tech sector right now. I can't see how this can even be in question.

Funny how that argument never comes up when people decide to bitch about Apple's profit margin.

But, sure, let's add another (being generous) 20% for development and "research" (the guy who goes to the Apple store and picks up the latest version of OS X).

So that's what...79% percent profit on OEM versions and 75% on retail versions. Still making Apple seem pretty generous by comparison.