To those who side with Apple because of issues with Acrobat

(in reply to a comment thread on Facebook)

Its interesting to hear that people have been having issues with Acrobat. But do I follow the news regarding Acrobat much? Actually, not at all. My focus has been in the Coldfusion/Flex area of the Adobe product line. I use CF to produce PDF's all the time for different client senarios and not once has anything every come back to me about PDF's causing such problems. When setting up these PDF's I'm testing on my screen which I believe is running at 1920x1200 and never experience an issue nor have I seen it lock up my computer.

Regarding the licensing issue, yeah, the CS products are really expensive. It something that business have to deal with. I would love to have a copy of Photoshop and possibly Dreamweaver but the budget won't allow for it. I get it. But honestly, are we not talking about SOP for any major software vendor? I do know in the recent past Adobe has done wonders to make licensing easier for companies. Now the EULA for CF includes the ability to use the key for an unlimited number of development boxes along with bonus licenses for another install of CF in the cloud. Also I know a lot of their EULA's allow for a second installation of their software for home use.

I can only say good things about the CF/Flex people at Adobe. They're all about their customers and are constantly thinking of new/easy innovative ways to make the like of a CF/Flex developer easier. And unfortunately this issue with Apple vs Adobe has directly effected the areas of Adobe's business I use daily.

With the increasing demand for mobile content many in our community were rejoicing when Adobe announced stuff like the SWF to iPhone compiler and AIR to run on the iPhone/iPad. This move really hurts the App Store and iPhone/iPad users as developers across the board may start to give up on development for these Apple devices because as many have described, the technologies/languages that Apple has made available to develop their apps are quite illogical. That's why other companies have developed other products like Titanium mobile and Phonegap. Plus with the rise in the number of Android devices out there, I suspect that many will focus mobile efforts elsewhere.

As far as mobile browsing to deliver content, it seems Apple is depending on the HTML5 standards that are still unknown to many. A quick search over at amazon shows that authors aren't going to get books out on the topic until this summer.

All this to say, sorry about the issues with Acrobat. Hopefully one day the Acrobot team will hear your cries.