An interesting comment from the link you posted.
"I feel Robert Leitao (aka DawnTreader) is closer to the real reason.
Steve Jobs feels betrayed by Adobe who after cutting their teeth on
Apple neglected the Apple platform for a larger PC market. As a
result, the Mac versions of the same products came out later, if at
all, after released on the PC platform. Adobe was probably thinking
the Mac would die anyway, looking at the buggy Mac version of Flash.
Now that the Mac presents a significant new large segment of the
market, its payback time for their betrayal. A bit similar treatment
to Google actually.
Posted By KSChin, Kuching, Malaysia: April 11, 2010 11:16 PM"
Sent from my iPhone
On May 3, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Christopher Nambale <[email protected]>
wrote:
I beg to disagree. Indeed, I think this debate is healthy in a way.
While SJ has a right do whatever he wants to make more money, it is
hypocritical of him to support openness only when it suits him. His
defense on why they don't use flash on their products should have
stuck to the technical details, he shouldn't have made any reference
to openness to quote "Though the operating system for the iPhone,
iPod and iPad is proprietary, we strongly believe that all standards
pertaining to the web should be open."
Perhaps more interesting was his admission that closed systems leave
you at the mercy of the owner:
"If developers grow dependent on third party development libraries
and tools, they can only take advantage of platform enhancements if
and when the third party chooses to adopt the new features. We
cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they
will make our enhancements available to our developers."
Hello Mr SJ if you are so averse to being at the mercy of others
what about the people who buy your products whose use of these
products is restricted to only the features you choose to support at
that time, how different is this?
If it makes technical and business sense for them to reject Flash on
their products so be it, let him turn away those clients who need
Flash for now, what he shouldn't do is to try to justify it in the
court of public opinion. Perhaps to better understand his motivation
in this debate please read:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iHqf7jhi51QJ:tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/02/19/why-is-steve-jobs-flash-obsessed/+steve+jobs+flash&cd=5&hl=nl&ct=clnk&gl=nl
CN
--- On Mon, 5/3/10, Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Paul Bagyenda <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]
To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 12:56 AM
Oh my! That Ass Technica writer fails to win by volume! SJ will
champion what best brings cash into his account. If that promotes
the free/open religion, then that is purely accidental even if it's
good. This guy gets it: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/04/29/jobs_on_flash/#c_752789
On May 02, 2010, at 20:02, Christopher Nambale wrote:
And FSF's 'non of the above' recommendation.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/pot-meet-kettle-a-response-to-steve-jobs-letter-on-flash.ars
CN
--- On Sun, 5/2/10, Richard Zulu <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Richard Zulu <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUG] Adobe responds to steve[OT]
To: "Linux Users Group Uganda" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 1:27 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10093314.stm
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