1. Our very alert regulators were apparently on a smoking break when the banking industry started to collapse. But they’re back now! Time to roll up their sleeves and decide whether the company with the 16 percent share of the smartphone market and five percent share of the mobile phone market is misusing its monopoly power!
    The Macalope hits the nail on the head about Adobe’s anti-trust complaint to the FTC.

    Saturday May 8th, 2010 (3 notes)

  2. Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen is trying to stir up some FUD about OS X being the cause of Flash’s crashes. Mr. Narayan says if Adobe crashes [Mac OS X applications], that actually has something “to do with the Apple operating system.” The above screenshot should be considered me calling bullshit on that statement. For the curious: that’s from an actual crash log from my Mac (late last year 2008 before installing ClickToFlash). All 511 lines of the crashing thread in that log are from Flash.

    Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen is trying to stir up some FUD about OS X being the cause of Flash’s crashes.

    Mr. Narayan says if Adobe crashes [Mac OS X applications], that actually has something “to do with the Apple operating system.”

    The above screenshot should be considered me calling bullshit on that statement.

    For the curious: that’s from an actual crash log from my Mac (late last year 2008 before installing ClickToFlash). All 511 lines of the crashing thread in that log are from Flash.

    Thursday April 29th, 2010 (13 notes)

  3. Wow, really Adobe Flash Player installer? - Chris Messina documents the latest fail from Adobe, requiring the Finder to be quit (?!) before you can install Flash.

    Wow, really Adobe Flash Player installer? - Chris Messina documents the latest fail from Adobe, requiring the Finder to be quit (?!) before you can install Flash.

    Tuesday April 27th, 2010 (8 notes)

  4. Hmmm. So giving Apple control over the iPhone is bad, but giving Adobe control over rich content on the web is fine. Hmmm.
    tomstandage, via Twitter

    Tuesday April 13th, 2010 (4 notes)

  5. ➶ Apple's iPad - a broken link?

    Another link courtesy of Gruber, this somewhat gloating piece from the Flash team seems to deride the fact that the iPad doesn’t include Flash.

    Upon watching the keynote stream this morning and seeing the broken plugin link, I couldn’t have been happier at the confirmation of no Flash on the iPad. The appearance of the missing plugin icon in the keynote was in absolutely no way accidental: the deliberate display of the icon is a firm F-U to Adobe.

    Thursday January 28th, 2010 (2 notes)

  6. ➶ John Nack Talks Flash vs HTML5

    Whilst he doesn’t speak for Adobe, it’s an interesting post to read alongside John Gruber’s excellent piece last week.

    Thursday January 28th, 2010

  7. Via David Chartier, Sebastiaan de With and Jeff Rock.

    Via David Chartier, Sebastiaan de With and Jeff Rock.

    Friday October 30th, 2009 (25 notes)

  8. Adobe can barely write Objective-C apps themselves. We’re still waiting for an update to CS4 that makes it not crash when you move the mouse too fast. You really want to trust them to manage your memory, translate your code and keep up with Apple’s SDK? Let me know how that works out for you.
    Jeff Rock: On Authoring iPhone Apps via Flash CS5 (via chartier)

    Monday October 5th, 2009 (74 notes)

  9. My Favourite Line in the Flash to iPhone Guidelines

    Can I use native iPhone OS Controls in my Flash based iPhone content?

    No.

    Applications for iPhone Developer FAQ - Adobe Labs, via Martin Pedrick. This says it all, really, doesn’t it?

    Monday October 5th, 2009 (8 notes)