I am an Apple fanboy. I am also an Adobe fanboy. Ever since I left my Scitex Workstation behind a decade and a half ago, I have lived in a world where Apple and Adobe seemed like twins. Adobe’s software has always been an elegant fit to Apple’s hardware.
The beautiful world of technology is always evolving in unpredictable ways. Change is painful. Growth is painful. And sometimes it can cause a riff or two.
While many people have thought it was only a matter of time before Apple touch-screen products like the iPad would become Adobe Flash friendly, that time now appears unlikely to ever arrive. Here is a very open response Steve Jobs posted on the Apple website, stating six reasons their touch-screen products will never be Flash-friendly: Thoughts on Flash by Steve Jobs.
He starts with: “Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage.” And ends with: “Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind.”
Regardless of what you know or how you feel about the technology in question, it is all the stuff in-between that makes this is a fascinating read. Love him or hate him, the diatribe is an intimate insight into the mind of one of technologies’ greatest entrepreneurs.
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