Apple loosens its chokehold on app development
By Stacy Cowley NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Apple is loosening its grip on its app development for its mobile devices, announcing Thursday that it will drop restrictions on what programming tools developers can use to create iOS apps. The company also dropped a ban on certain in-application ad serving tools that had effectively cut off Google’s [...]
Adobe Strikes Back at Steve Jobs’ Flash Attack
By Patricia Resende Adobe Systems has fired back at Apple CEO Steve Jobs, denying that Flash causes Mac crashes and battery draining. Apple’s Mac OS X is to blame, Adobe’s Holly Campbell charged, calling the claims “another attempt to control developers and consumers.” Given Apple’s Flash restrictions, Adobe has moved on to help other mobile-device [...]
Adobe promises faster Flash on Macs
Adobe Systems, evidently stung by recent criticisms of its widely used Flash Player browser plug-in, has promised better performance on Mac systems. “Given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac, and it is for the most part the same code running in Flash for each operating system,” said Adobe [...]