Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash

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Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers – Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products – but beyond that there are few joint interests.



I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain.

First, there’s “Openâ€.

Read on over here: Thoughts on Flash

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[Supra]

Re: Steve Job's thoughts on Flash

Lol after a long time he wrote something good

 

[H2O]

That was a good read. I have subscribed for HTML5 on youtube and I think there is no performance loss of any kind.

 

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We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.

But of course mein fuhrer. Everyone knows it izz always der the other way around.

Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.

Ya, it is all about ze kontrol.

bangs fist on table

APPLE UBER ALLES

 

[shantanugoel]

That was a good read. I have subscribed for HTML5 on youtube and I think there is no performance loss of any kind.

HTML5 is still in nascent stages and there is no consensus on which video codec to use..so you cant really say anything about it just yet..

besides its not just about flash vs HTML5, infact I think it is much more about adobe air than flash..