My old version also showed a list of the cookies on my mac. This feature seems to be gone.

Apple, please pay attention. Some of us are very concerned about our web privacy and we want features that REALLY BLOCK COOKIES and insure private browsing.

Still America has yet to wake up to non-carrier endorsed phones and so far T-Mobile is the only real option for “open” handsets anyway. So if Android can bring down the cost of open handsets to affordable levels – Motorola and HTC are going to see pressure at the high-end device level from Apple, and the low-end from Chinese OEM manufacturers.

I wonder what’d happen to their core set of users if Adobe uprooted and pulled all their products from the Mac platform (Photoshop, Acrobat, Pagemaker anyone?)

Not a great future for a company that had graphic design as it’s niche.

@Dave

I see Apple’s restriction like this: Someone asks you to write a paper but instructs you that you HAVE to use Microsoft Word to write the paper. Pages can produce the exact same document, but this person is convinced using anything except Word will create a “sub-standard” paper. Yes, app development is much more complex than a memo to a coworker, but the concept is just as ridiculous.

Wrong analogy. Apple didn’t ask or contract any developers to write stuff for the iphone/ipad. Developers want in on a lucrative business. It’s like bidding on a contract with the government or a company. You want the contract, or you want the business, then you stick to certain guidelines. Apple isn’t forcing anybody to write software for the iphone. If you want in, you play by the rules. It’s Apple’s platform, so it’s Apple’s rules. You don’t like the rules, there are many more mobile platforms to write software for.

Remember the transition to the Intel architecture? Since 2003, Apple had been urging developers, including Adobe to use Apple’s tools for development. Developers that had moved to XCode before 2005 needed only to check a box in XCode and recompile to have their applications run natively on the Intel Macs. Adobe and Microsoft, because of their use of their own tools and others that were using the Code Warrior tools, couldn’t simply move and took years to support intel macs natively if at all.

What if Apple came out with a new processor that needed new binaries? They could easily add support in their own tools, but, then all the applications built using Flash would have to wait for Adobe to support this new binary that future gadgets from Apple would need.

The argument is not, “Use Apple’s tool vs. Use Adobe’s tool.” The argument is, “Use Apple’s tool vs. Use Any tool.” IF Adobe were to become the head-and-shoulders above the rest, preferred platform AND they placed unreasonable restrictions on their product THEN they might be in the same situation.

I see Apple’s restriction like this: Someone asks you to write a paper but instructs you that you HAVE to use Microsoft Word to write the paper. Pages can produce the exact same document, but this person is convinced using anything except Word will create a “sub-standard” paper. Yes, app development is much more complex than a memo to a coworker, but the concept is just as ridiculous.