"How come such a relatively simple files - something that essentially plays media content - continues to be such a hot-bed of vulnerabilities".

Flash didn't start out as a media player, per se, but an interactive presentation layer for animations and for a while imagined itself as browser-independent web based user interface programming language.

So it is a complex unwieldy beast.

Which is why the Adobe Flash installer also include McAfee anti-virus as a courtesy.

If your coding is terrible and very newbie like, they can't single you out since your code is similar to the ocean of other terrible coders.

So if you are a paranoid freak, the best way to ensure your safety and keep the government off your back is to write terrible code.

Clearly.

In relatively recent times, there was no true consumer marketplace for computers or mobile phones -- it was business or homework. Microsoft Office, Blackberry (the corporate emails phone), consoles gaining capabilities and rendering the PC gaming segment tiny.

The consumer market emerged, with the decision making behind purchases for that sector being very different and only Apple sought (or had the acumen) to target it effectively.

Business spending is an expense (cheap, functional), consumer spending is an acquisition of a want.

Subtract out the top 1% of pay to play games and quite a different story will reveal itself.

Case in point, Clash of Clans makes $500,000 per day and it is well known that Apple commands the overwhelming majority of mobile app $$$ volume. If you add in the revenue from the top 100 "freemium" pay-to-play games that $10 billion figure is going to shrink very, very quickly.

A handful of Freemium games are the top payouts, with almost the 99.999% of the rest making near 0.

And free cable too!

Very humurous (--- now medical students studying bones will find this page in their searches)

What electronic products do you use that are made in a country with decent labor laws? And what about your clothes and shoes?

Are you setting a positive example for this world like you promised?

Couldn't you Google that information in the same amount of time it took you to type the question?

He said: "I am not so impressed by hateful online arguments"

"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. "

Why aren't you helping?

His last name is "Foss" ("free and open source").

Pretty great joke, I never would have noticed the name.

Buggy? Incomplete?

Perhaps they intend to work in the games industry.

So it would seem. I think the Windows distribution model causes the hardware to have razor thin margins and the OEMs to fight each other. No wonder Jobs made sure to kill Mac clones in the 1990s.

Apple arguably makes the best phones and when using Android phones you notice little things here and there that aren't quite a nice, but these are rather rare and mostly insignificant.

It feels strange that Apple is making such a profit with a rather smallish that may be 12% of the market and no particularly eye-popping new products since the Steve Jobs era, just a series of well-engineered refinements.

Then again, certain shoe and apparel companies do this and have done this for decades. Seems odd to see this in technology sector that historically has been very market-share, volume and dominance oriented. However historically, this was the method employed since the early days of Apple (premium pricing).

Interesting story. No doubt a different environment.