No, it's exactly what he said. I don't get where you're coming from at all.<p>He started by saying that the iPad not having Flash is bad:<p><i>The announcement that the iPad won't support Flash kick started a lightning storm of opinions. The alleged issue at hand is that the iPad doesn't support Flash. This is a bad thing.
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The iPad isn't revolutionizing netbooks, it's devolving them back to a fully closed era.</i><p>He said the platform is locked to one language in one environment:<p><i>One environment, one language. A cumbersome, time consuming distribution process.While you can certainly be expressive using Objective-C and with the iPad, the decisions on how a user engages with something we make should be left to the experts.</i><p>Which is not even remotely true. (Also, I'm pretty sure he just called Apple non-experts on user interface design, addition to conflating programming language with user interface design.) I have written iPhone applications in Scheme, Haskell, JavaScript, C, C++, and probably some others (in addition to Obj-C.) You can use the Objective-C layer if you want, or call the C functions directly, use the FFI from Python or other languages, etc. He thinks Objective-C is the only way to write iPhone applications because he's clueless.<p>He makes the claim that they aren't only a Flash company. That they are open to other technologies. And that the iPad should be an open platform for developers to do whatever they want with. Why doesn't he take his own advice? You can develop iPhone and iPad apps using something other than Objective-C. Get to it. Hell, you can even write them in AS3 and compile to a native app. Why isn't he? Why is he bitching about the closed iPad environment? Because that's not what he actually wants. He wants Flash, in the iPhone/iPad browser, so that Flash still seems relevant to corporate marketing departments, so that he can keep getting paid without having to learn something new.<p>As for your ad hominem attacks: blow me. I don't care what you think about me or what my comment scores are.