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[iPhone] Adobe’s CEO Fires Back at Steve Jobs

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On Wall Street Journal Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen yesterday nite answered to Steve Jobs latest attack. Jobs had released an open letter yesterday morning. The bottom line of Jobs’ letter is:

  • Adobe Flash is something from the past, as it is not open,
  • it is not energy efficient and
  • it does not unleash the full powers the individual platforms (meaning: the full power of Apple’s iPhone or iPad).

Narayan responded in the WSJ.com interview, that

  • It’s got nothing to do with technology, but with control.
  • Apple wants to maintain control on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch platforms.
  • he wonders if Flash is one of the most reasons for crashing a Mac, it’s also got much to do with the operating system
  • if hardware acceleration is provided from the operating system, playing Flash takes a lot lesser energy than on a Mac.
  • Flash is an open specification

Well, well, that love is not over. We wonder how far we’re away from the point when Adobe decides to stop developing for the Apple platform? Would Apple even care? Or would they just tell thousands of designers to switch to GIMP?

We hope you don’t mind, we embed the whole WSJ.com interview as Adobe Flash ;-)

[iPhone] Adobe Ceases iPhone To Flash Compiler

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After Apple’s announcement of their iPhone OS 4 SDK  license:

Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine

This came a couple of days before Adobe shipped their latest Creative Suite 5, which contains a native Flash to iPhone compiler. Sadly this compiler can only (legally) be used for iPhones running the iPhone OS3 as the license of iPhone OS 3 still allows it. Anyway at the end of june the iPhone 4G is expected and thus the new iPhone OS 4 will be released under those heavily limiting terms.

Mike Chambers of Adobe now responded publicly to Apple’s moves:

We will still be shipping the ability to target the iPhone and iPad in Flash CS5. However, we are not currently planning any additional investments in that feature.(..)

The primary goal of Flash has always been to enable cross browser, platform and device development. The cool web game that you build can easily be targeted and deployed to multiple platforms and devices. However, this is the exact opposite of what Apple wants. They want to tie developers down to their platform, and restrict their options to make it difficult for developers to target other platforms. There is plenty of commentary online about this, so I won’t belabor the point, but I have included some links below that cover it more depth:

So, was all of the work on the iPhone packager a waste of time and resources? No, I don’t believe so. We proved that:

  1. There is no technical reason that Flash can’t run on the iPhone
  2. Developers can create well performing and compelling content for the device with Flash

via Mike Chambers’ Blog…

[Flash] Adobe Flash For Mobiles in 2nd Half Of 2010

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Murdoch’s Fox TV has spoken to Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen. Besides talking about their intimacy to Apple, Narayen says Adobe Flash for mobile devices like Palm Pre or Android is coming in 2nd half of 2010.

Regarding Apple’s anti-flash position, Narayen said:

With respect to Apple, it really isn’t a technology decision as much as it is a business decision. And they’ve chosen to keep their system a proprietory and closed system, which it why they are not supporting Flash. And I think that this hurts customers.(..)

You’re gonna see phones that run the Android operating system from Google or the Palm operating system support the web in all its glory. (..)

And so what we think is that consumers will eventually vote for the experience that they want through their wallet.

Video is courtesy of Fox TV…

[WePad] iPad Competitor WePad To Come in Summer

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Berlin based Company Neofonie now presented their latest high-tech gadget called WePad. The We Pad will be cheaper than the iPad. The WePad will be Adobe Flash enabled.

Tech Specs

  • Intel Atom CPU N450 (1,66GHz)
  • Multitouch display 11,6″ with 1,366 x 768 pixels
  • Bluetooth 2.1
  • WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n
  • Camera for Videochats
  • 6hours runtime
  • 2 x USB 2.0
  • HDMI Output
  • SDHC Slot

The operating system will be a multitouch adjusted Linux. Software can be installed as widgets. Open Office will be available. It is compatible to

  • Android Apps
  • Adobe Flash
  • Adobe Air
  • Oracle’s Java

Versions

The WePad will be released in two flavors.

  • Version A: 16GByte Mem / 450€
  • Version B: 32GByte Mem / 570€ / 3G Modem / GPS / 1080p HD Video

Releasedate

The WePad will be released in Germany in July. Pre-Orders can be submitted from April 27th, 2010.

via: Golem.de (german only)…

[Pre] Flash Coming to Palm Pre in First Half 2010

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Although beta versions of Adobe Flash for the Palm Pre seem to be available soon (at least for developers), end users will have to wait significantly longer.

Visiting http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer on a Palm Pre shows the following text.

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 is coming to Palm WebOS in the first half of 2010.

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Via Precentral.net

[iPhone] Adobe Confirms Flash For iPhone

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On the Flash on the Beach Conference eventually Paul Betlem – senior director of engineering at Adobe – confirmed, Adobe is actively developing a Flash version for the iPhone. The Flash Magazine reports, Adobe will have a Flash Player for iPhone available in short time, but since the iPhone is closed plattform Apple will decide when it will be released.

In March Microsoft and Adobe announced to license Flash Lite and the Acrobat Reader, so that all upcoming Windows Mobile OS based devices will support it.

[iPhone] Adobe Flash to Come to the iPhone, though

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english

Adobe announced they begun to work on a version for the iPhone. When it will be due to release has not been said. Being realistic Adobe and Apple could make this feature an exclusive for the UMTS iPhone at the end of the year. I would not expect to have Flash released together with iPhone firmware 2.0 in june. This seems to be highly unlikely. Read more infos on Wall Street Journal…

deutsch

Adobe hat bekannt gegeben, die Arbeit an einer iPhone Flash Version begonnen zu haben. Ein Veröffentlichungstermin wurde nicht genannt. Realistisch scheint eine Veröffentlichung für Ende des Jahre, wenn das iPhone mit UMTS auf den Markt kommt (Vorsicht dies ist reine Spekulation, dem keinerlei belegbare Fakten zugrundeliegen). Weitere Details hat der Golem.de…

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[iPhone] No Adobe Flash for the iPhone soon

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english

Adobe’s Flash player is not good enough for the iPhone. It seems like hopes for Flash on the iPhone soon have just been disappointed. Read more about this issue here on CNN Money (link).

deutsch

Der Adobe Flash Player soll laut Bericht im Golem nicht gut genug für das iPhone sein. Bald Flash können wir also vergessen. Mehr könnt Ihr hier bei Golem lesen (link).