Adobe CEO Comments on Jobs' Thoughts on Flash
You may recall that yesterday saw the debut of a lengthy letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs detailing his Thoughts on Flash. Summarizing the letter, we'll say this: Jobs is not a fan of Flash. in his own words:Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short. The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games. New open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.Coming from a high-profile and largely influential celebrity CEO such as Jobs, those surely sound like some fighting words. A failure to defend one's product from such allegations could possibly result in lost revenue, to say the least. As such, Adobe could not possibly be expected to remain silent on the issue. Standing up to defend his company, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen spoke with the Wall Street Journal yesterday to clarify the software giant's stance in the growing disagreement between the once friendly corporations.Highlights of Narayen's comments are transcribed on the WSJ's website along with a full video of the interview--in Flash format, of course.
http://www.maclife.com/article/news/adobe_ceo_comments_jobs_thoughs_flash
