Steve Jobs Says I Told You So: Adobe Found Critical Flaw In Flash
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Now Adobe finally revealed that there is a critical flaw in Flash. The critical vulnerability could let attackers take control of people’s computers. No official patch to fix the problem yet.
Apparently Google also hates flash. From SFGate: Google, at the end of the day, also hates Flash. Running an all flash environment is SEO death. Flash websites are simply too complicated for Google’s spiders to actually understand. Google sees the internet primarily in text – flash, and other scripts are ignored.
Will we see the end of Flash soon? We think so, just like DOS, floppy disks and cassette tapes.
Apple Steve Jobs Reveals Adobe Cast The First Stone On Flash Fiasco
Apple CEO Steve Jobs now revealed that he did not begin the long-running feud with Adobe over Flash. He only did so when Adobe started to raise the stink.
Steve Jobs said: We didn’t start off to have a war with Flash, or anything else. We just made a technical decision that we weren’t gonna put the energy into getting Flash on our platform. We told Adobe, if you ever have this thing running fast, let us know, which they never did. It wasn’t until we shipped the iPad and it didn’t use Flash that Adobe started to raise a stink about it.
Steve also declared the end of the post PC era with the iPad/tablet overtaking PCs.
Apple has previously posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Read the full memo after the jump:
Adobe Heart Apple Ad Campaign – A Poor Attempt At Getting Support For Flash
Adobe responds to Steve Job’s dislike of Flash with an ad campaign titled “Adobe Love Apple”. It started off nice but end with a stab at Apple with taking away freedom. Let’s face it Adobe, we know you are feeling the heat because they know Flash will soon be replaced by the more future proven HTML 5. And Steve Jobs knows that too. So please give up on Flash!
Scribd Ditched Flash For HTML 5
Scribd, a service for hosting and sharing documents online, has started moving away from Flash and converting all documents to HTML 5 format. We can see the trend where companies building web applications are moving away from Flash such as YouTube, Google and Apple.
Adobe Behind Apple Antitrust Complaints?
Officials at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are thinking if they will probe Apple new policy which prevents developers Adobe using Flash to create iPhone and iPad apps. Did Adobe tip the Feds off? Most likely since Apple rejected their Flash cross-compiler for iPhone.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps. Why would you want watered down apps to appear on your device?
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
What he said is true and please don’t change the SDK agreement and keep giving us quality apps.
Apple Steve Jobs Memo On Adobe Flash – Unfit For iPhone, iPad
Apple has now posted a memo from Steve Jobs regarding Flash. In a nutshell, the Apple CEO says Flash is unreliability, insecure and has low performance. And he did not want developers to use Flash tools to develop sub-standard iPhone, iPad apps.
Steve said: Flash was created during the PC era—for PCs and mice. The mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open Web standards—all areas where Flash falls short. Adobe should focus more on creating tools for the future and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
Read the full memo after the jump:
Adobe’s Fear Of HTML 5
Adobe is having the shakes when it comes to HTML5. Why you may ask? It is because of the iPhone and iPad not supporting flash. Soon we may see Flash being part of history just like floppy drives. Embrace the future Adobe, HTML 5 is gaining traction.
This will surely stop Adobe’s new Flash development tool that compiles Flash apps into native code for the iPhone.
Here is what an employee of Adobe (Lee Brimelow) says about Apple that is now redacted:
Now let me put aside my role as an official representative of Adobe for a moment as I would [like] to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple.
He continue his rant with this:
Many of Adobe’s supporters have mentioned that we should discontinue the Creative Suite products on OS X as a form of retaliation….Personally I will not be giving Apple another cent of my money until there is a leadership change over there. I’ve already moved most of my book, music, and video purchases to Amazon and I will continue to look elsewhere.
This rantings all came from the latest changes to iPhone OS 4 SDK:
Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile and directly link against the Documented APIs (e.g., Applications that link to Documented APIs through an intermediary translation or compatibility layer or tool are prohibited).
HP Slate Tablet Will Have A Camera And USB Ports
Hewlett-Packard is releasing the “iPad Killer”, a tablet PC running Microsoft Windows 7 that is capable of supporting Adobe Flash.
HP claims that their tablet will offer a more complete computing experience than Apple’s iPad. The tablet will have: a camera, USB ports, SD memory extension, Flash and running on Windows 7. Check out the new video.
Apple Blessed iPad Friendly No Flash Websites
Apple is promoting publishers who offer HTML5 video as an alternative to Adobe Flash the company has released a list of iPad-friendly Web sites. The websites are CNN, Reuters, People, TED, New York Times, White House, Flickr, Vimeo, Virgin America, Sports Illustrated, Major League Baseball, and Time.
Where is YouTube because they do have HTML5 video too? Common Apple, please add Google’s YouTube to the list.
We are iPad friendly too 
Source: Apple – Ready for iPad
Google Integrate Flash Into Chrome Browser
Google is working with Adobe to integrate Flash into the Chrome browser instead of using a plug in. Is this a good direction for Google? Should they invest more of their time in implementing open, browser-native HTML5 technologies into Chrome?
Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, called Flash “buggy,” littered with security holes, and a “CPU hog”.
We believe this initiative will help our users in the following ways:
- When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. There will be no need to install Flash Player separately.
- Users will automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome’s auto-update mechanism. This eliminates the need to manually download separate updates and reduces the security risk of using outdated versions.
- With Adobe’s help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome’s “sandbox” to web pages with Flash content.
