{"id":3504,"date":"2010-01-28T18:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T02:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2010-02-03T22:19:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T06:19:28","slug":"apple-declares-war-on-free-web-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/28\/apple-declares-war-on-free-web-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Declares War on Free Web Content"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It’s hit me what I really can’t stand about the new Apple iPad.\u00a0 It’s been mentioned by most of the reviews of this new tablet device, but I don’t think people are really getting the scope of what Apple is up to.\u00a0 The iPad, like the iPhone and iPod Touch before it, does not support Flash.\u00a0 You know, Flash, perhaps the single greatest technical innovation on the Web since the invention of the Web itself.\u00a0 Flash is what brought us nearly universal moving images on the Internet. Flash brought us YouTube.\u00a0 Flash has created almost every single good game you have ever played in your browser.\u00a0 Flash is responsible for the greatest explosion of animation talent in the history of the art form.\u00a0 There is not another single piece of browser software that has brought so much to the web browsing experience as the little Flash player that’s installed on nearly every computer on the planet.\u00a0 Here’s a blog entry by one of the Adobe Photoshop developers<\/a> that explains why Flash is so great.<\/p>\n

But Apple does not allow Flash on its iPad, iPod Touch, or iPhone.\u00a0 Won’t allow it to run.\u00a0 That’s why you get a broken plugin icon whenever you encounter a web page with Flash in it.\u00a0 The company says silly things about Flash being too slow, or Flash hogging CPU cycles.\u00a0 Complete horse radish.\u00a0 Apple doesn’t want you to have Flash because Apple wants you to buy apps in its App Store instead.\u00a0 That’s what this is all about.<\/p>\n

So, essentially, Apple is fighting for a closed and walled-up Internet where all your cool moving images and games come straight out of their App Store and nowhere else.\u00a0 When you behave this way with a small-screened device like an iPhone or iPod Touch it’s one thing.\u00a0 But when you blow the whole thing up onto a big fat glorious iPad screen it’s another thing entirely.\u00a0 Now it really shows up as a flagrant attempt to disable every creative piece of Web work that any artist, animator, filmmaker or game designer has ever done and force people to accept your little library of 140,000 little applications, most of which cost good money.<\/p>\n

Try visiting this web site on an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.\u00a0 See all our games and movies in the drop-down menus?\u00a0 Not a single one will work.\u00a0 Not one.\u00a0 Because of dear old super-genius Steve Jobs.\u00a0 Mr. Dingbat gets up in front of reporters at the public iPad unveiling and says idiotic things about having ‘the Web in your hands.’\u00a0 He presents his new iPad device as a Web browser.\u00a0 It can’t be a Web browser if it disables half the Web.\u00a0 It simply defies logic.<\/p>\n

This is really all anyone should need to know about Apple and its devices.\u00a0 They are building little cash registers that limit your view of the Web and lead you to one final destination: the App Store.\u00a0 They are trying to make you pay for the World Wide Web.\u00a0 Great technology.\u00a0 Very dark plan.\u00a0 I’m on Flash’s side.\u00a0 Go Flash!\u00a0 Apple, you suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hit me what I really can’t stand about the new Apple iPad.\u00a0 It’s been mentioned by most of the reviews of this new tablet device, but I don’t think people are really getting the scope of what Apple is up to.\u00a0 The iPad, like the iPhone and iPod Touch before it, does not support […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319,209],"tags":[320,39,902],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-web","tag-apple","tag-flash","tag-ipad"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3516,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}