Jobs on Flash
Jobs’ letter talks about how it’s bad for a platform if developers use cross-platform technologies, and more specifically, that Adobe has been slow in adopting new technologies in Mac OS X, with Carbon of course being the prime example.
And yet, without any sense of shame, Apple ships iTunes for Windows. iTunes for Windows is by far one of the worst pieces of (major) Windows software you can possibly think of. It does not integrate with Windows in any way, does not use any of the advanced technologies present since Windows Vista (refined in Windows 7), it’s incredibly slow, it crashes a lot, it still hasn’t been ported to 64-bit (despite consumer 64-bit versions of Windows existing since 2005) and in general, sucks harder than a… No, I’m not going to finish that analogy. […]
Remind you of anything? Yes, iTunes is the Flash of the Windows platform…
