You Will Be Assimilated
The BBC gives him space to expound: Apple boss Steve Jobs explains ban on Flash
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Mr Jobs said Flash was made for an era of “PCs and mice” and performed poorly when translated to run on touchscreen smartphones and handheld devices.
He also criticised the technology for being only under the control of Adobe.
The letter comes soon after Flash creator Adobe announced it was ending its efforts to make tools that translate Flash code into programs that can run on Apple gadgets.
Adobe’s announcement followed a change to the terms and conditions of the licence that software developers must sign when writing code to run on Apple products.
That change banned developers from using the automatic tranlsation tools Adobe had been developing.
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So, a control freak complains about other control freaks. He complains that Flash works as badly on Macs as Quicktime works under Windows. Steve still won’t forgive Adobe for being so nasty about Postscript fonts, i.e. wanting to get paid when they were used.
The only things that prevents the world from realizing what jerks Apple and Adobe really are is the presence of Microsoft.
