Apple Goes on the Record: Flash is “Closed and Proprietary”
By this point, we don’t need a public confirmation that Apple doesn’t care much for Adobe’s Flash -- but they did it anyway.Cnet DeepTech went looking for a rare public comment from Apple after Adobe’s Mike Chambers made some noise about Cupertino having a “closed system” that was restrictive to developers. Much to Cnet’s surprise, Apple decided to go on the record about it, according to AppleInsider.“Someone has it backwards -- it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary,” said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller.It’s a rare public statement from Apple, who has taken heat from the tech world and users alike since the original iPhone debuted in 2007 without Flash compatibility. After the company showed off the new iPhone OS 4.0 earlier this month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs was asked straight out if the company plans to add Flash support, to which he replied tersely, “No.”Privately, Jobs has allegedly been quite vocal about his dislike of Adobe Flash. At a company meeting in January, the CEO was rumored to have called Adobe “lazy” about their technology and cited Adobe Flash as the cause of most crashes on the Mac. He allegedly called Flash a “CPU hog” during a meeting with The Wall Street Journal, calling the format “full of security holes” and “old technology.”Adobe’s Chambers announced this week that the Flash publisher was waving the white flag on their CS5-driven Packager for iPhone, which allows Flash developers to port their work over to Apple’s handset. A policy change in Apple’s new iPhone OS 4.0 specifically prohibits such non-SDK applications from being published in their App Store.The most ominous comment allegedly spoken by Apple CEO Steve Jobs regarding Adobe Flash is also the most telling: “The world is moving to HTML5.”
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