Fat Agnus

Everyone around us, parents, friends, co-workers, our boss etc. is always giving us advices.

In my experience, I have found that it can be difficult for people to understand the message if they are not open for it, no matter how good your intentions is.

One reason for this could be that people have something more important on their mind, something that worries them or there is lack of basic trust.

A positive emotional connection is a very important aspect. People should feel that they can trust you and that you have their interest at heart.

What ever you do, always give an advice with sincere compassion.

Maybe it is just me, but I think that people are starting too overreact a bit on this whole Apple thing. So lets try to put things in perspective.

Sure it might be a bit frustrating not to have cross-platform tools, which Adobe would like to offer its developers. As a .NET developer myself, it would have been fun to use MonoTouch, but I am surely not going to complain about if Apple wont allow it. I would rather see it as a great opportunity to learn a new language and broaden my knowledge. If you have ever read “The Pragmatic Programmer”, then you would or should feel the same as me.

Apple and Adobe is like a very old couple that has been together forever, so they probably have a fair share of quirks, which probably doesn’t help in a situation like this and Apple could probably have handle this situation better. However, I can understand Apple’s motivation for not allowing, cross-platform tools.

If you ask the customers, they probably don’t care a single bit about what is going on, they just want to have cool Apps for their iPhone/iPad and who can blame them?

And if Apple were to rely and wait for companies like Adobe to implement new features that they put into the platform, then they would lose the competitive edge.

Btw. Niels Hartvig, i’ll bet that you are probably already on your way to buy the latest MBP (who can say no to these beauties) in the nearest Apple Store, even though you state that it is time to get rid of all your Apple gear. ;)

Further reading

Steve Jobs Thoughts on Flash

The Adobe - Apple Flame War

Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs (Update 2)

Have you sat though a meeting with a client where you are trying to figure out the requirements for a project and experienced the following situation, where they want all the bells and whistles but don’t really want to pay for it ?

This is something I have heard a lot in some form of variation. For some reason, it doesn’t seem to happen any other place. Why is that?

But what if it did.