1. The Internet is an open range where anyone can compete in any way they like. But Adobe didn’t make the Internet. In fact, they tried to wall off a section of it. Apple, on the other hand, made its own walled garden with a scenic view of the Internet.
    The Macalope

    Thursday May 20th, 2010 (3 notes)

  2. ➶ Adobe®: We Love Choice

    valhallaisland:

    The $600 Flash authoring tool is the only way to produce Flash applications.

    The free Mac OS X Developer tools (that require an $800+ Mac computer) are the only way to produce iPhone and iPad applications.

    Both systems are as closed as each other.

    Adobe claims Flash is open.

    Apple makes no such claims. If you want to make iPhone or iPad apps you use Mac OS and Xcode, take it or leave it.

    If you choose to leave it the alternative is HTML. A truly open platform for which authoring is as simple as editing text. There’s many HTML rendering engine implementations, the best few are totally open source with Apple being the major contributor to the best one, WebKit.

    Adobe: not open, claim to be.

    Apple: not open, don’t claim to be, contribute heavily to that which is truly open.

    Spot on, via Gruber

    Thursday May 20th, 2010 (123 notes)

  3. We thought [smartbooks] would be launched by now, but they’re not. I think one reason is to do with software maturity. We’ve seen things like Adobe [Flash] slip — we’d originally scheduled for something like 2009.
    Smartbooks have been delayed by Flash issues, says ARM — ARM takes a pot-shot at Adobe.

    Thursday May 6th, 2010 (1 note)

  4. Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.
    Steve Jobs

    Thursday April 29th, 2010 (44 notes)

  5. Weird that Steve posted Thoughts on Flash at Apple.com instead of his normal blog, daringfireball.net.
    Dustin Curtis, via Twitter

    Thursday April 29th, 2010 (2 notes)

  6. 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)

  7. 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)

  8. It makes all the difference in the world that Apple is pushing H.264 rather than, say, QuickTime as the way forward for embedded web video.
    Gruber

    Monday February 1st, 2010

  9. Adobe is complaining that iPad users can’t access Farmville. That sounds like a feature not a bug.
    Dare Obasanjo, via Twitter

    Thursday January 28th, 2010 (6 notes)

  10. ➶ 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