Apple’s Steve Job Says Google Evil And Adobe Lazy
As reported on Wired, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs took some time answering questions at the One Infinite Loop after the big event. Questions about Google and Adobe were thrown at Steve and here is how he answered it.
About Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
Source: Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs (Update 2)
Adobe Photoshop App For Android
Adobe has released the Android platform of their free Photoshop app, giving users a quick and easy way to edit their images. Adobe has already launch a Photoshop App for the iPhone in October.
- Crop, rotate, and color-correct with the touch of a finger.
- Add soft focus or change to black & white with a click.
- Go classic by adding a sepia tint.
- Intuitive Photo Browser for viewing local and online images.
Adobe Photoshop App For iPhone
Adobe has released in the US and Canada a new Photoshop app for Apple’s iPhone. The will be free and available on the App Store.
The Photoshop App will feature:
- Crop, rotate, change color with just a touch.
- Give an extra glow with Soft Focus.
- Get artsy with Sketch.
- Apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette.
Apple iPhone Will Get Flash Apps
Adobe has announced Flash 10.1 for mobile phones but this will not work on the iPhone. Apple claims that Flash would drain the battery life of the iPhone. During Adobe MAX conference in Los Angeles, the company has announced a converter that is able to export Flash applications to iPhone Apps.
Now it is up to Apple to agree with Adobe to get this up and running on the iPhone.
Source: iPhone will be able to run some Flash programs
Adobe CS3 May Have Problems With Apple’s Snow Leopard
Adobe has now released a FAQ regarding their CS products on Apple’s next OS, Snow Leopard. The new Mac OS X product will be out tomorrow but users of CS3 may find problems using it on the new operating system.
The FAQ states that CS4 will run fine with minor problems of auto-updates to Flash panels and Adobe Drive/Version Cue. So far Adobe has not tested CS3 on Snow Leopard.
Source: Adobe Snow Leopard FAQ
Adobe Flash 10 For Mobile In Oct
Adobe plans to ship a beta version of Flash 10 for Android, webOS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian by October. Both BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone is not on the list. The availability of Flash 10 beta coincides with the Adobe Max conference.
Recently Google claimed that Flash can be replaced by HTML 5 which has the cability to support rich media applications online. Google showed a prototype YouTube created by just using web standards HTML 5. This could be an answer for showing flash like components on Apple’s iPhone.
Acrobat.com Launched
Adobe has moved Acrobat.com out of beta after 5 million people have signed up to use the service since its release in beta a year ago. Adobe will offer two paid subscription services: The basic service costs $14.99 a month or $149 a year, and includes being able to convert up to 10 documents a month to Adobe’s popular PDF format. In addition, subscribers can hold Web meetings of up to five people. The premium service costs $39 a month or $399 a year, and includes an unlimited number of document conversions to PDF and up to 20 Web meeting participants.
Planned features include shared team workspaces and smartphone access, as well as a spreadsheet-like application, Acrobat.com Tables, which joins the recently announced Presentations application on Acrobat.com Labs.
Press Release: Adobe Announces Major Update to Acrobat.com
Adobe Pushes Flash To TV
Adobe is expected to extend Flash and Flash based applications to your TV by the end of 2009. This is a big opportunity for Adobe to get its software out there into living rooms.
Adobe has already extended Flash to the mobile market but Apple iPhone yet to embrace this piece of software due to using too much processing and battery power.
Flash 10 Comes To Mobile Phones But Not iPhone
Adobe has announced that the company will release the full Flash 10 player (not the Flash lite) to mobile phones in 2010. Mobile phones running Windows Mobile, Google’s Android, Nokia S60/Symbian, and the new Palm Pre. The list did not include Apple’s iPhone.
We do know that Apple is working with Adobe in getting flash into iPhones.
iPhone Will Run Flash Soon
Adobe and Apple is working together in getting Flash into iPhone. Adobe CEO as saying that “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating. The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.”
Source: Adobe, Apple working together on Flash for iPhone
