Posts tagged Adobe

Adobe Launches Ad Campaign Against Apple

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May 13, 2010
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Adobe just launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on it’s anti-Flash mission. If you aren’t sure what were talking about, it’s the advertisements that start with “We [heart] Apple.” Along with the web ads, the company also snagged a full page in today’s Washington Post to address the battle in which the two companies have started with one another. All of the links back to a new statement from Adobe, as well as an open letter from founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, addressing Apple’s recent spate of clear and direct attacks against the company and it’s products. Most More >

Adobe CEO Responds To Jobs’ Flash-Critique

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May 2, 2010
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Steve Jobs posted an open critique of Flash, elaborating the reasons why Apple has chosen not to allow Adobe Flash on their platform. The article contains several interesting pointers on why Flash could be an inappropriate platform for media consumption on mobile devices like the iPhone. In his letter, Job pointed out that Flash was a proprietary technology that scores low on reliability and security. The Apple CEO had also pointed out Flash’s growing irrelevance in the modern era where touchscreen devices and open development standards are becoming more and more dominant.

So, what does More >

Steve Job’s Thoughts On Flash

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April 30, 2010
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Steve Jobs recently posted an open letter explaining Apple’s position on Flash. In this letter he goes back on his company’s long history with Adobe and goes over six main points of why he thinks Flash is not right for mobile devices. HTML5 naturally is mentioned, along with a few reasons that were a bit unexpected. You can find a break down below:

  • It’s Not “Open”: “While Adobe’s Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only from Adobe. By almost any definition, Flash is a closed system.” HTML5, CSS, More >

SkyFire 2.0 Beta Ready For It’s Android Release

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April 30, 2010
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Recently we have been seeing mobile browsers steadily raising their game, so it was inevitable for Skyfire to try and shock and awe us with its first release for the Android platform. Version 2.0 introduces a brand new SkyBar, which sits at the bottom of the screen, providing users with a trifecta of new features. First and foremost, the Video link servesr as a workaround for the pesky “your phone doesn’t support Flash” missives by doing server-side conversions of Flash video into universally comprehensible formats like HTML5. If implemented well, this should be a major coup for the company, More >

Adobe Plans To Sue Apple

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April 14, 2010
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ITWorld is reporting that the Apple-Adobe standoff is going to get uglier. According to their sources, Adobe will be suing Apple in the next few weeks for banning applications that are built with cross-compiler programs such as Adobe’s Flash-to-iPhone packaged in its Flash Professional CS5, which was released earlier in the week.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols of ITWorld wrote:

Usually I write about security here, but Apple’s iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple’s face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple More >

iPad/iPhone ‘Alternative Technology’ Adoption Hurts Adobe

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April 9, 2010
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Adobe might continue to boast about Flash and the importance it has on both desktop and mobile devices, but there’s no lying to investors, and the company is pretty blunt about the threat of the iPhone and iPad in the end-of-quarter Form 10-Q it just filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. It flatly says that “to the extent new releases of operating systems or other third-party products, platforms or devices, such as the Apple iPhone or iPad, make it more difficult for our products to perform, and our customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies, our business could More >

Chrome To Integrate Flash

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March 31, 2010
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If Steve Jobs could have his way, then we would expect Apple and the upcoming iPad to go down in history as the device that nearly destroyed Adobe’s Flash empire single-handedly. Content providers such as the Wall Street Journal, NPR, CBS, and others have begun transitioning video services to the new standard (away from Flash) now that it’s time for the iPad release. But this week, Adobe has found an ally in Google which has just announced that the Chrome browser and more importantly the Chrome OS will not merely support but natively integrate the technology. In the short run, what this More >

Adobe Discusses Future of Flash

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February 17, 2010
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Apple’s decision not to include Flash Player capabilities on the iPhone and now the iPad has resulted in apparent tensions between the two companies.

BoomToom interviewed Adobe Chief Technical Officer, Kevin Lynch and questioned the relationship between Apple and Adobe and the deployment of Flash on Mac as well as the iPhone and iPad.

Lynch’s comments about Flash on the Mac indicate that the Adobe is working hard on CPU usage during video rendering, acknowledging that such tasks use more CPU cycles on the Mac than on Windows. Regarding the iPhone, Lynch defends the importance of Flash on the More >

Adobe Getting Pounded with Download Requests for iPhone+iPod

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February 11, 2010
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Adobe got 7 million iPhone and iPod touch download requests for Flash in December: A touch of history might be appropriate here. Back in March 2008, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen proudly proclaimed that his team was about to start coding a Flash player for the iPhone, only for his company to promptly backtrack on those words a day later.

Then, about this time last year, Apple and Adobe again announced that they were collectively working on putting the ubiquitous format on Cupertino’s mobile devices, but you won’t be surprised to hear that hasn’t born any fruit yet either. In fact, More >

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