The Flash saga continues: Adobe responds to charges of "laziness"
Filed under: Multimedia , Software , Internet Tools Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, has posted the latest riposte in the ongoing fencing match between Apple and Adobe concerning the lack of Flash support in Apple’s portable products, including the iPad . Apple’s latest word on the subject reputedly came from Steve Jobs himself at the recent Town Hall meeting with Apple employees , where he characterized Adobe as “lazy,” condemned the plugin’s poor performance on the OS X platform, and predicted a future where HTML5 would supplant Flash. Presumably in response to those comments, Adobe’s Lynch has argued in favor of Flash, citing the plugin’s ubiquity, flexibility, and Adobe’s commitment to “focus on enabling our customers to do their best work, and helping them reach people effectively and reliably around the world across operating systems, browsers, and a variety of devices.” Lynch acknowledges the rise of HTML5 video in his post, but he notes that he sees the two technologies as co-existing rather than “one replacing the other.” He also claims that since no standard implementation of HTML5 video exists, widespread adoption of HTML5 in place of Flash would lead us back to the “dark ages of video on the Web with incompatibility issues.” He also re-affirms Adobe’s commitment to bring Flash 10.1 to mobile platforms like the Nexus One , and he claims that 10.1 provides enhanced performance across a variety of platforms. His claim is true — our own testing showed substantial improvements in Flash 10.1’s performance on OS X — but whether those improvements are enough to enable it to run well on iPhone OS is another story. What’s most interesting about Lynch’s post isn’t within the main body of the post, but rather in the comments that follow. Read on to find out more. [Via The Register ] In the comments section on Lynch’s post, he makes the following statement: “I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs, and if there was such a widespread problem historically Flash could not have achieved its wide use today.” That’s an interesting statement
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The Flash saga continues: Adobe responds to charges of "laziness"
