Richard’s Corner

Practice What You Preach Steve

Steve Jobs: We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform. *cough* iTunes on Windows *cough* How about practicing what you preach.  If it’s good enough for Apple’s efforts on Windows, it should be good enough for Flash and Flex developers who would [...]

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The Gloves Come Off

In case you haven’t heard, Apple released it’s new iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement.  Among the changes is wording that seems to ban the use of languages other than Objective-C to write iPhone applications. Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shares his opposition to this move by Apple: Now let me put aside my role as an official representative [...]

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Downgrading iPhone Beta 3.0 to 2.2.1

I have been using iPhone OS 3.0 Beta for a while, but I recently ran into a situation that forced me to downgrade to 2.2.1. What was the situation you ask? Well, I was in the middle of a required upgrade from beta 4 to beta 5 when an “Unknown Error (10)” occurred. [...]

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