Jeff Lamarche är inte helt positiv till att iPhome Appar ska kunna programmeras i Flash CS5.

Han tar på sin blogg iPhone Development upp ett antal aspekter som han anser talar för att Appar gjorda i Flash inte bör tillåtas till iPhone.

Technical: Are the applications generated by Flash 5 as good, or at least ”close enough” to being as good as those created using Xcode?

Logistical: There is a very large installed based of Flash developers and a large amount of existing content. The popularity of the App Store has already caused significant growing pains.

Equitable: Related to the previous point, this flood of new content literally overnight is going to have a significant and detrimental impact on existing developers.

Political: Adobe and Apple long ago stopped being BFFs and have been in a somewhat contentious coopetition situation for quite some time. Apple made it very clear to Adobe on a number of occasions that Flash was unwelcome on the iPhone, and yet Adobe has continued to push ahead with an amazing disregard for that, fueled by what seems like a tremendous sense of entitlement: a feeling that they have a right to benefit from Apple’s success with the iPhone even though they did not contribute to it in any way.

Legal: Despite Adobe’s claims, I’m incredibly skeptical that they could have created the tools needed to generate iPhone apps without using Apple’s toolchain at all given the amount of time it took them, unless they had access to the SDK and violated the legal agreement that they had to agree to to get access to it.

Jag håller inte med honom helt och hållet. Till exempel att flera Appar i App Store automatiskt är sämre och att man ska skydda dom som programmerar i Objective-C. Konkurrens är bra, men Apple är ju inte kända för att gilla det så det ska bli intressant att se hur det här utvecklar sig. Vill ni läsa hela hans inlägg ska ni bege er till http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com