Tuesday, July 06, 2010
[Google Fast Flip] Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
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Another take on the Adobe vs Apple
Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
By Tom Kaneshige CIO - At the heart of the great war of words between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen lies a simple question: Is Adobe Flash really bad technology? If the answer is yes, then Apple is right to ban it from the iPhone platform. If the answer is no, well, then it's a good bet Apple is trying to sway public opinion and put an end to Flash's reign on the Web for business reasons. Apple has much to gain with Adobe out of the mobile Web picture: Flash is a popular app development tool that lets developers expose their work across platforms. Apple doesn't want the competition. That's why Apple recently tweaked its developer agreement to forbid developers from using third-party software tools, essentially banning Flash from the iPhone platform. Jobs, in a rare and lengthy blog post, claims Flash is poorly written software that will drain battery life and drag down the mobile Web experience. There are better and more open ways of rendering video on the iPhone, he says, such as the emerging HTML 5 standard. It's because of poor, proprietary technology that Apple has banned Flash on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In a Wall Street Journal video, Narayen fir...
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Another take on the Adobe vs Apple
Apple-Adobe Feud: Is Flash as Bad as Jobs Says?
By Tom Kaneshige CIO - At the heart of the great war of words between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen lies a simple question: Is Adobe Flash really bad technology? If the answer is yes, then Apple is right to ban it from the iPhone platform. If the answer is no, well, then it's a good bet Apple is trying to sway public opinion and put an end to Flash's reign on the Web for business reasons. Apple has much to gain with Adobe out of the mobile Web picture: Flash is a popular app development tool that lets developers expose their work across platforms. Apple doesn't want the competition. That's why Apple recently tweaked its developer agreement to forbid developers from using third-party software tools, essentially banning Flash from the iPhone platform. Jobs, in a rare and lengthy blog post, claims Flash is poorly written software that will drain battery life and drag down the mobile Web experience. There are better and more open ways of rendering video on the iPhone, he says, such as the emerging HTML 5 standard. It's because of poor, proprietary technology that Apple has banned Flash on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In a Wall Street Journal video, Narayen fir...
Read full story ¶ 6:13 AM
