The lack of Flash on Job’s iPad during last week’s event unleashed an entire debacle, especially since the apparent reason for this is that Steve Jobs finds Adobe “lazy”.
Well, Adobe’s CTO, Kevin Lynch, took the time to address the issue on Adobe’s blog. It begins with the usual corporate nonsense about how great of an impact Flash has had through the years, while pointing out that Hulu is a great example of its implementation.
He adds that Flash is ready for the iPad and it’s just a matter of Apple allowing it. He also claims that the lack of html5 common standards or its limited compatibility are a serious issue, and he doesn’t believe Flash will disappear “today nor even in the foreseeable future”.
In the comments further on, however, he ends up admitting the inadmissible:
given identical hardware, Flash Player on Windows has historically been faster than the Mac
So basically, just because there are less Macs than PCs we only deserve a Flash of the poor.
No surprise Steve wants your guts, lazy.
[via Tuaw, Thanks to TheMeTree]
I own three ipods and a macbook, and I hate (and never use) Adobe software. It’s kludgy, a resource hog and often ineffective. I also realize your site kisses apple ass, and that’s to be expected. So much for framing the following.
If anybody is guilty of the “usual corporate nonsense”, it’s Steve Jobs and Apple. Its products are severely over controlled, and usually incomplete in the sense that they are designed do some things and not others, in an arbitrary and “big brother” sort of way. The ipad will be no different. Comparisons between the ipad and a rock are apt, and the impracticality of the ipad is evident. Will it have a swivel leg upon which to rest itself, or do I have to look at videos staring straight down? I know I would have to stare down to type. And I await the statistics showing how many ipads are dropped, since the thing doesn’t have a handle (like my netbook does).
More than 95% of the computing world does its business on PC’s, so it may be that Adobe simply focuses its attention where it can make the most money, and if that disses Apple, so what? If that’s lazy, then as a company Apple is lazy in the same way.
I have an Archos 5 two years older than my ipod touch – it’s touchscreen is much better and brighter than my ipod touch, and it plays damn near everything, unlike apple products which play damn near nothing. Apple is rarely technologically advanced, and except for the iphone (a marketing success), it has never produced a gamechanger. The ipad isn’t one either.
In the end, the ipad will be a incredibly overpriced way to read digital magazines in color, and I have no doubt that many will buy one. There’s a word for them, and it’s not lazy. It’s suckers.
I believe that Apple’s strategy on this one is “Less is more”.
Furthermore, if Adobe wasn’t interested by the iPad, I would indeed agree with you. It’s however not the case. If they want to be on the iPad, they have to deliver and make it through the “approval process”.
Um, most netbooks don’t have handles either. Maybe yours does, but the vast majority of them don’t. Nice straw man, though.
You guys just don’t get it!
The lack of flash is not a matter of lazyness.
The real reson why they aren’t allowing flash is because it would affect the AppStore in a way that they would not sell their tv shows and their games. People would just go stream movies and play flash games online wich is what apple wouldn’t want. And why apple is planing to get Silverlight On the iPhone and iPad is because there is more CONTROL over it.
nice point!
Cant we all just get along, cant apple and adobe agree to disagree… lol