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Adobe CEO rebuts Steve Jobs’ Flash letter in WSJ video interview

As many of ProVideo Coalition readers read yesterday,  Steve Jobs published his open letter regarding Adobe’s Flash. Now, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen rebuts Steve Jobs’ letter in a video inverview with the Wall Street Journal. Ahead you’ll find a link to Steve Jobs’ open letter, to my article, and to the rebuttal interview from Adobe.

• Article: Tépper is glad that the iPad doesn’t support Flash
• Steve Jobs’ open letter regarding Flash
• Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen’s rebut-interview with the Wall Street Journal

Thanks again to WSmith for bringing this to my attention.

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I have to say that Steve Jobs is whinning like a little baby on this one. He wants to use Apple’s proprietory software as a way to force consumers into having to deal with Apple. They have even yanked apps from their store that run on both the iPhone and Android (including one award winning app.) simply to try and thwart any competition. How Jobs can say the relationship between Apple and Adobe has soured and blame it on Adobe is a joke. Adobe has always made their software so that it can be used on either a Mac OS or Microsoft OS. Hmmm… I wonder where Apple got the idea for FCP? Like everything else they supposedly develope, it was based on Premier. Apple either steals your idea, or they buy your company to try and squeeze out any competition. They lost the computer wars to PCs, and are lucky they maintain the 10 percent of the market share they enjoy. Apple’s only hope for the future is that they can pigeon hole people into their proprietory crap and then control the market. It’s really the only place they can grow their business. As far as Flash being the number one cause of Macs crashing, I find that just rediculous. Why ask any Apple acolyte, Macs never crash (sic), that’s why their better than PCs. Hopefully the open concept of software developement, the model almost every hardware and software producer has embraced will win out over Apple’s money grubbing proprietory stance. Maybe the real reason Steve Jobs is upset is that he knows history has shown again and again that proprietory gambits never work. Can you say Betamax, Steve.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  04/30  at  04:30 PM

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Microsoft is now weighing in via a spokesperson, (not Ballmer, yet) that it too favors open standards and HTML5 (it’s own egregiously bastardized version no doubt…

Microsoft does seem to be be diplomatic about it and points to it’s long business-friendly relationship with Adobe in working together to fix bugs and security issues. 

I can’t wait for Ballmer to opine in his way. Right now he’s probably scratching his bald head and trying to parse that age old maxim: “The enemy of my enemy is my…” and saying to himself “is my what?”

Posted by wsmith  on  04/30  at  10:04 PM

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