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Apple stabs Adobe in the back « Scobleizer — Tech geek bl

scobleizer.com — Apple stabs Adobe in the back On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple ’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone.

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  • MrViklund, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1No Flash on the iPhone? What's up with them? What are they thinking? What are they thinking with?
    Not to put flash on the iPhone must be the worst decision ever made. This is shocking. Someone should be fired over this.
  • dssstrkl, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Scoble's just talking out of his ass. Again. Just because Nokia wants to booger up S60 with Silverlight, doesn't mean that Apple needs to get a me too announcement in by adopting flash, especially if it sucks on the iPhone. Considering how ***** Adobe products tend to be on OS X, I think its Adobe that needs a lesson in civics, not Apple.
    (And I'm saying that as an Adobe customer who shells out [lots of] real money for their products, so I expect them to work properly on every platform they support)
  • MikeonTV, on 03/05/2008, -0/+1Whu Whu What?
  • decet, on 03/06/2008, -0/+1IIRC Jobs stated that the full Flash player is too heavy for the iPhone, and that a trimmed-down version is needed. Decoding Flash video requires more computing power than many other formats (e.g. MPEG-4), which means shorter battery life. Adobe has some homework to do before Flash is mean and lean enough.
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