If the rumors about Bing are true, then this panning could also have
something to do with Silverlight. If I were at MSFT and my role was to
ensure that Silverlight succeeded in knocking Flash off (as Word knocked
off WordPerfect back in the day, e.g.) then I'd be looking for chinks in
Adobe's armor wherever they may be.
On 2/1/2010 2:26 PM, Paul Andrews wrote:
It's just commercial tactics.
You'd never guess he has his own tied-in development system to support.
Why wouldn't he knock flash?
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> Jobs has previously called out Adobe Flash, currently the
> dominant animation platform on the Web, for being "too slow to be
useful" and Flash Lite, Adobe's versio n of Flash for mobile devices,
as not advanced enough for the iPhone. So it's no surprise to hear
Jobs called out Flash during Apple's Town Hall, but his language this
time sounds a little over the top. Jobs reportedly called Adobe a lazy
company, and said that when a Mac crashes it's usually because of Flash.
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> Whether or not that's true, it's clear that Jobs is not a fan of
Adobe's multimedia platform. The iPhone is routinely criticized for
its inability to render Flash-based Web pages, videos and games, and
early criticisms about the iPad also decry the lack of Flash
compatibility on Apple's latest device.
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