Why do I need to agree to the Flash license in order to "upgrade" something ? I stopped using Apple iTunes and Quicktime because of this shit. And Microsoft Zune also uses this demented form for "upgrading". Why do they hate us so much ? Upgrading is now "installing". Because I am "installing" software every week because of security problems !

Add an UNINSTALL button Adobe. That way people can do the safe thing without reading official documentation filled with technical jargon and PR mumbo jumbo.

Posted by JP at 07:09 AM | Permalink

I went to the JavaFX 2.0 beta download page today. And it demanded that I log into Oracle to download the SDK. Just like Apple does with beta software. Except Apple actually cares about developers and produce a Cocoa product that matches Carbon. Oracle is still six months away from delivering JavaFX and that implies a non-mentally-retarded-license.txt and maybe a live Kernel update.

If JavaFX is the future, then use it for something. Just look at Microsoft Expression Blend as an example. If Oracle creates nothing in JavaFX, then why should anyone else ? People hated Swing because they used Swing applications, not because they read a tutorial about JavaBeans and thought manual get/set patterns were super lame.

I closed the Oracle tab and wrote this instead. I can wait a few more years before opening their SDK. There is no rush.

Posted by JP at 02:22 AM | Permalink