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On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:59:32 -0500, Warren Oates
<warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:

>Flash runs very well under OS X of course, it has too, or OS X would 
>have long since disappeared. It's banned from other Apple devices for 
>reasons I don't understand. 

Some clues and guesses:
<http://news.cnet.com/2100-1012-5181434.html>
<http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_business_of_online_vi/2008/10/most-cdns-still.html>

I prefer a conspiracy theory.  Apple and Adobe were good friends when
the Apple standard for printing was Postscript.  Because of generallly
high license costs, Apple did everything it could to replace
Postscript including licensing Microsoft TrueImage (in trade for
TrueType a big investment from Micosoft in Apple).  TrueImage turned
out to be a total loser and Apple never did anything with it.
Eventually they gave up and licensed Postscript.  The pissing match
restarted when Apple didn't like the price for Display Postscript and
hacked together Quickdraw as a replacement. 

When Jobs left Apple to found NeXT, he did the basic work on hammering
Display Postscript into a workable system, only to have Adobe sell it
to many other Unix workstation manufacturers.  He was not thrilled.

That was 20 years ago.  Whether Jobs still holds a personal grudge
against Adobe or its founders is subject to debate.  Considering the
rocky relationship, and the perptual attempts to dump Adobe products,
my guess is that there's something going on at high levels.  Probably
someone at Adobe stole Steve's parking place.

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