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The first thing that crossed my mind was: "Apple wants to force Adobe Flash into the Mac App Store". Now, the current App Store terms of service seem to preclu
by codebaobab 16y ago
The first thing that crossed my mind was: "Apple wants to force Adobe Flash into the Mac App Store".
Now, the current App Store terms of service seem to preclude the distribution of plugins like Flash. But let's pretend, just for a minute, that they didn't. Apple would see the following advantages to having the Flash plugin on the App Store:
1) No need to worry about syncing Flash updates to OS X updates. No more risk of shipping an "outdated" version of Flash like happened with 10.6.4 back in the summer.
2) There is a visible, user friendly update stream (that is separate from the OS update stream.) This should enable users to easily always be using the latest version.
3) Apple can wield the hammer (as hard or as soft as it chooses) against bugs in the plugin--that's part of the terms of service in App Store. It makes it easy to push back on Adobe when they find bugs during the review process (even if the bugs they "find" are bugs that were known from previous releases.)
And, who knows? Now that Safari 5 has an official plugin mechanism, perhaps the App Store will open up for Safari plugins in the not too distant future.
- smackfu 16y agoIt really does make sense to move non Apple stuff out of the system updater, and into the app store updater. Flash and Java being the two main items. OTOH, it would make even more sense to wait until the app store exists.
- matwood 16y agoI was thinking the same thing although current app store rules would seem to disallow installing something like flash and Java. I really hope that Apple does end going this way and let 3rd parties manage their libraries in this manner.
- happybuy 16y agoRightly or wrongly, I think the truth is probably closer to: "Apple wants to force Adobe Flash into the Trash"