Adobe Responds To Steve Jobs About Flash, Admits To Laziness?
February 5, 2010
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 MacSo 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]