Should have snuck a Flash player into the binary :)
Adobe Reader
It’s hard to believe that it has taken Adobe so long to release a PDF reader for iDevices, especially since the Android version has been available for more than a year now. And with so many other apps already available for reading PDF files, including Apple’s own iBooks, I could barely muster the enthusiasm to download Adobe …
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Thursday 3rd November 2011 12:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ahem
" It’s hard to believe that it has taken Adobe so long to release a PDF reader for iDevices, especially since the Android version has been available for more than a year now."
No, it is not. Remember how long it took for them to come up with a semblance of 64-bit software for the Mac, years and years after they had done so for the Windows version.
And people wonder why Apple didn't want these morons setting up an application layer on the iPhone. If they had allowed Flash for developing apps on iOS, they would have been at the mercy of Adobe for introducing new features that wouldn't break with the update.
If that means not having Flash on my mobile, then so be it. Adobe is the new Microsoft anyway: shoddy, bloated software with insane hardware requirements full of security holes without bringing anything new to the table ("oooh, healing brushes, now that's re-inventing the wheel, innit").
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Thursday 3rd November 2011 15:29 GMT David Lucke
I'll be sticking with GoodReader, thanks. Excellant app, easy to use, with annotation and reflow, and fully integrated into various cloud storage, including dropbox. And, crucially, not made by that pisspoor excuse for a bloatware factory, Adobe.
Oh, random piece of trivia I noticed when googling Macromedia Flash: CEO of Macromedia when it was bought by Adobe in 2005 was a Mr Stephen Elop, whose name you may have noticed in other contoversial strategies recently...