14 DAY TRIAL // Citing “tyrannical control over developers… more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe,” Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow made a verbal attack on Apple, suggesting that a real developer could not support Apple’s move to ban apps that were written in any non-Apple-approved language. Putting aside his role as an official representative of Adobe, Brimelow goes for the jugular, downright insulting the Cupertino-based Mac maker.
“I am positive that there are a large number of Apple employees that strongly disagree with this latest move,” Brimelow’s blog post reads. “Any real developer would not in good conscience be able to support this,” he believes.
“The trouble is that we will never hear their discontent because Apple employees are forbidden from blogging, posting to social networks, or other things that we at companies with an open culture take for granted.” Adobe’s Platform Evangelist is referring to the new terms in Apple’s iPhone 4.0 SDK, which state that creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages constitutes a violation on behalf of the developer.
“Adobe and Apple [have] had a long relationship and each has helped the other get where they are today,” the post continues to outline. “The fact that Apple would make such a hostile and despicable move like this clearly shows the difference between our two companies,” Brimelow upholds.
“Personally I will not be giving Apple another cent of my money until there is a leadership change over there,” he goes to mention, outlining his immense discontent towards Cupertino’s policies. “I’ve already moved most of my book, music, and video purchases to Amazon and I will continue to look elsewhere. Now, I want to be clear that I am not suggesting you do the same and I’m also not trying to organize some kind of boycott,” he reveals.
As noted above, Brimelow felt compelled to express one last thought, although he could not do so without putting aside his role with the Flash maker. “Speaking purely for myself,” his conclusion begins, “I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple,” his post ends (emphasis ours).