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Adobe CTO Kevn Lynch talks Apple, says Flash on the Mac will improve
Apple’s stance on Flash is pretty well-known, with Steve Jobs going so far as to say that the majority of crashes on Safari are because of Flash. Below, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch took some time to talk to Kara Swisher from All Things D about all things Apple and Flash, while also addressing some of the anti-Flash sentiment […]
Continue reading...Adobe: Over 7 million attempts to download Flash from iPhones and iPod Touches
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Amidst all the grumbling back and forth over Apple’s decision not to support Flash on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad comes an interesting report courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle saying that in December alone, that were more than 7 million attempts to download Flash from Adobe’s website via iPhones and iPod Touches […]
Continue reading...More details on Steve Jobs’ irritation with Adobe
Friday, February 5, 2010
Steve Jobs made headlines last week when he reportedly referred to Adobe as lazy during a company townhall meeting about the iPad. Now, Hardmac reports, citing a source close to an Apple executive, some of the more precise details surrounding Jobs’ characterization of Adobe as lazy and why Apple and Adobe haven’t been seeing eye […]
Continue reading...Andy Ihnatko nails flash
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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In response to the extreme public reactions that followed OJ Simpson’s acquittal on murder charges, Chris Rock once quipped that black people were too happy and white people were too mad. In a similar vein, the back and forth bickering over the iPad’s lack of Flash is getting to be a bit ridiculous, with people […]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs calls Adobe lazy, says Google’s “Don’t be evil” mantra is BS, and promises A+ upgrade for the iPhone
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Last week, Apple held an informal town-hall style meeting where company employees engaged in a Q&A session with CEO Steve Jobs. Wired, citing an anonymous person who was there, yet not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, writes that Jobs addressed a bevy of issues, including Apple’s stance on flash, the next-gen iPhone, and […]
Continue reading...Adobe takes Apple to task for lack of flash on iPad
Friday, January 29, 2010
In a post titled “Broken link?”, Adrian Ludwig of Adobe calls Apple out for not including flash on the newly announced iPad, and argues that Apple is ultimately ruining the end-user experience. As I drove by Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco this morning, I couldn’t help but be impressed. Apple certainly has the ability […]
Continue reading...iPad promo materials show Safari running flash
Friday, January 29, 2010
Sometimes aesthetic considerations supercede reality when it comes to advertising. To wit, check out some promotional shots of the iPad below – the New York Times pages it displays all have flash elements to them, yet if you recall Steve Jobs’ demo, a missing plugin icon appeared on the iPad when Jobs was browsing the […]
Continue reading...Adobe calls out Apple for restrictive flash policies [Photo]
Monday, November 2, 2009
The iPhone still can’t run flash and it probably won’t support flash anytime soon, if ever. But that hasn’t stopped Adobe from lobbying to get flash up and running on the iPhone, with their most recent move being to basically call Apple out. When iPhone users visit Adobe’s flash download page, they’re greeted with non […]
Continue reading...Adobe announces Flash Player 10.1, iPhone support nowhere to be found
Monday, October 5, 2009
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At the Max Conference in LA, Adobe announced the arrival of Flash Player 10.1, an upgrade which promises to make delivering flash video more of a reality than it has been in the past for devices that haven’t been up to snuff. Flash 10.1 will improve performance by taking advantage of GPU acceleration on a […]
Continue reading...Apple’s growing role in WebKit development and what it means for Flash
Friday, August 28, 2009
The WebKit engine has become the de-facto standard for mobile browsers, something which takes on broader implications in light of Apple’s unparalleled involvement and contribution to the WebKit open-source project. In addition to Apple, a number of other companies such as Nokia and Google are heavily involved with WebKit development, but with approximately 30 webkit […]
Continue reading...Why MLB.Com dumped Silverlight and returned to Flash
Thursday, April 9, 2009
After a series of glitches and complaints from MLB subscribers, MLB.com announced a while back that it would stop using Microsoft’s Silverlight to stream baseball games to users. Now, more details are emerging which help explain some of the factors that led to that decision. Baseball never detailed the reasons for dropping Silverlight but sources […]
Continue reading...Why Flash won’t be coming to the iPhone anytime soon
Thursday, February 19, 2009
It was reported earlier this week that Palm joined Adobe’s Open Screen Projectand that the Palm Pre, not surprisingly, will start supporting flash sometime in 2009. Of course, it’s impossible to bring up flash support for mobile phones without noticing Apple’s apparent reluctance to incorporate the technology into the iPhone. Adobe’s CEO gets everyone’s hopes […]
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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