“Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the
future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”
That’s the conclusion of a long (for the Internet) post by Steve
Jobs himself on Apple’s website. Jobs takes on critics who don’t
like it that on iPhone and iPad products, Apple has refused to support
Adobe’s widely-used Flash technology for video, games and user
interfaces.
In an essay titled “Thoughts on Flash,” Jobs tries to reverse the claim that the iPhone and iPad are are “closed” to third-party software, rather than open, because only Apple-approved apps can win placement in Apple’s App Store. You’ve got it backwards, he says. Apple is open, Adobe is closed.
The post comes one day after bloggers noticed that Apple’s annual software design awards will be restricted this year to only iPhone/iPad apps. Software for the more open and freewheeling Mac OS X platform, which ships on Apple’s Mac-branded desktop, notebook and server gear, will be excluded from the awards. “This is because Apple’s secret plans for OS X rolling over to the closed ’shop’ model of software distribution,” one VentureBeat reader speculated.
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Author: Paul Boutin
