In an open letter published Thursday, Steve Jobs outlined a half dozen reasons why Apple is not supporting Flash on its mobile platform. Adobe’s CEO has defended Flash in response to Jobs, but some ex-Adobe employees interviewed by Wired.com shared many of the Apple CEO’s thoughts.
In his letter, Jobs highlighted the major reasons Apple is leaving Flash behind. Most relevant to users, Flash is the top cause of application crashes on the Mac, Jobs said, and Flash’s video-decoding method is a major battery drainer.
If Adobe crashes on Macs, that actually has something “to do with the Apple operating system,” Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen told The Wall Street Journal. He added that claims about Flash draining battery life were “patently false,” but he didn’t appear to elaborate.
Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh, former Adobe mobile engineers, said they were raising flags at Adobe in 2007 about the same complaints that Jobs detailed Thursday.
“Walter and I, being the lead architects for Flash Lite, we were seeing the iPhone touch devices coming out, and we kept saying ‘Hey, this is coming along,’” Icaza said in a phone interview. “You have this white elephant that everybody ignored. Half the [Adobe] mobile business unit was carrying iPhones, and yet the management team wasn’t doing anything about it.”
Icaza and Luh have a vested interest in this dispute: After leaving Adobe, they launched a startup, Ansca Mobile, which produces a cross-platform solution called Corona that competes with Flash.
They said they left Adobe because executives did not take the iPhone seriously when Apple announced the touchscreen device in 2007. Instead, Adobe focused on feature phones (cellphones with lightweight web features, not smartphones) and invested in development of Flash Lite to play Flash videos on such devices. Subsequently, Adobe shut down the mobile business unit in 2007, and has suffered from a brain drain in the mobility space ever since, Icaza and Luh said.
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Δεν μας λένε κάτι που δεν ξέραμε ήδη οι παλιοί Mac χρήστες. Ή γενικά οι γνώστες των Η/Υ. Απλά είναι όμορφο να το λένε οι ίδιοι τους το πόσο χάλια είναι στο μυαλό τους και στις πράξεις τους τα προϊόντα της Apple και ότι δεν την παίρνουν την Apple στα σοβαρά. Όχι τίποτα άλλο αλλά τον τελευταίο καιρό (2+ χρόνια) ακριβώς το αντίθετο φαίνεται με την Adobe να παρακαλάει την Apple και όχι μόνο, να βγάλει το παλιοFlash στο iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad.
iStaTsakidia Adobe. iStaTsakidia.
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