Steve Jobs Calls Adobe Lazy!

[Schlup]

Furthermore Jobs had a handful of choice words for Adobe, calling the company "lazy" and claiming that "Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5." Of course, these amazing nuggets of wisdom come from a source which Engadget cannot verify, so it's possible there are misquotes or items taken out of context, though from the sounds of things, this kind of talk falls right in line with what we'd expect from the man who said Microsoft "had no taste" and makes "really third-rate products." We eagerly await Eric Schmidt's response.

Source:  http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/31/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-lxvii-steve-jobs-lashes-out-at-google/

[tehfunk101]

steve jobs doesnt want his products to have flash because that would open everyone up to flash games, hulu, etc etc, which would in turn bring down app store and itunes sales

[Got_Amm0]

jobs is a tool. wants to be bill gates but never will be

[Seraph]

Bill Gates basically owns Apple. He purchased the vesting amount to be controlling shareholder in order to save the company. He just lets Steve Jobs run it and handle the day to day operations.

[Got_Amm0]

really i didnt know that.... wow bill gates is the man

[Schlup]

The Gates Foundation also just donated $10 billion to a charity to find cures for various diseases like AIDS, cancer, etc.

[CoCoCountyKiller]

Bill gates is the man

co.co.

[cygnus]

I know a lot of people may dislike Gates but he is a good man, and as  mentioned, he donates  A LOT to charity!  I often wonder what the PC world would be like today, had IBM not thrown him out when he approached them with his DOS version (which was really a spin off from anotehr disk operating system.  A lot of you guys are probably too young but I remember DOS.  I stayed on DOS for years, even after win 3.1 came out as I just refused to change.  I finally switched to win95 although I really disliked that OS. 

[Seraph]

There's a movie called "pirates of silicon valley" that is about bill gates and friends and how it all started and stuff. It was a very good film and is all based on facts

[Schlup]

Hmm, may have to rent that one...how old is it?

[Seraph]

It is an older film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/

Link to a website about it.

[silvir]

I know a lot of people may dislike Gates but he is a good man, and as  mentioned, he donates  A LOT to charity!  I often wonder what the PC world would be like today, had IBM not thrown him out when he approached them with his DOS version (which was really a spin off from anotehr disk operating system.  A lot of you guys are probably too young but I remember DOS.  I stayed on DOS for years, even after win 3.1 came out as I just refused to change.  I finally switched to win95 although I really disliked that OS. 

I still use DOS with some things. Like Doom, there are just some games you can't let go, 8 P

[Schlup]

Adobe Responds to Steve Jobs

Flash won't be replaced by HTML5 anytime soon, according to this CTO.


Earlier this month Steve Jobs made headlines when he declared that Google's "Don’t Be Evil!" motto was a load of crap and Adobe was just plain lazy. Now, Adobe doesn’t take kindly to that kind of talk and on Tuesday, CTO Kevin Lynch took to the Adobe blog to discuss the future of Flash.

Beginning with the snide snipe, "Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device," Lynch published a blog post defending Flash, which Steve Jobs said was pretty much dead anyway. According to Jobs, Flash will soon be obsolete because, "the world is moving toward HTML5."

Lynch points out that over 85 percent of the top web sites contain Flash content and Flash runs on over 98 percent of computers on the Web. "It is used for the majority of casual games, video, and animation on the Web and familiar brands like Nike, Hulu, BBC, Major League Baseball, and more rely on Flash to deliver the most compelling experiences to over a billion people," he writes.

Lynch also disagrees with the notion that soon HTML5 will replace Flash. "Some point to HTML as eventually supplanting the need for Flash," he writes, adding that he doesn't see it happening in the foreseeable future. Mr. Lynch claims that users and content creators could be 'thrown back to the dark ages of video on the web' if faced with the compatibility issues of HTML5.