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Feb 18 2010

CEOh-Snap: Jobs Calls Flash “Old Technology”, Adobe Calls Apple “Proprietary Lock”

Valleywag claims “people familiar with the meeting” between Steve Jobs and the Wall Street Journal have told them Apple’s CEO once again dismissed Flash as “old technology”, while Bloomberg News reports on Adobe CEO, Shantanu [...]


Feb 10 2010

Adobe Says 7 Million iPhone OS Users Tried to Download Flash — Would Hulu App Fix That?

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, according to Adobe 7 million iPhone and iPod touch users attempted to download Flash in December, well over the 3 million who tried back in June. We wonder how [...]


Feb 7 2010

On Flash Crash and Sublime HTML5 Video Clash

We all know by now there’s no Flash on the iPhone or iPod touch, and it doesn’t look like there’ll be Flash on the iPad, which is probably why Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer fired off [...]


Jan 31 2010

CEOh-Snap: Steve Jobs Says Adobe Lazy, Flash Buggy, Google Wants to Kill iPhone, Not “Not Evil”, Next iPhone A+ Update?

According to an anonymous source in attendance at Apple’s recent, internal iPad town hall meeting at the Cupertino campus, Steve Jobs answered some employee questions by saying “Adobe is lazy” and that Google’s “don’t be [...]


Jan 30 2010

Adobe Flash Blog on iPad/iPhone — Bad for Games, TV, News… and Porn!

TheFlashBlog’s Lee Brimelow, Platform Evangelist at Adobe “focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities” has put up a series of iPad mockups highlighting a wide range of web sites all showing the blue [...]


Jan 25 2010

Politics and Practicality the Reason for no Flash Player on iPhone… and iTablet?

Daring Fireball has an interesting post up regarding the continued lack of a Flash Player for the iPhone, and the reasons why Flash support for the iTablet/iSlate/iPad is unlikely:

I’ll leave the last word [...]


Nov 3 2009

Adobe Getting Snarky Over Flash on iPhone

Adobe’s getting snarky over the continued absence of Flash on the iPhone, now presenting users with the above message which reads:

Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of technologies required [...]


Oct 9 2009

Adobe Releases Photoshop.com iPhone App

Adobe has released Photoshop.com Mobile [Free - iTunes Link]. The App Store is cluttered with a ton of photo editing tools, but this was one obvious omission. Nice to see Adobe fill it.

Crop, rotate, change [...]


Oct 9 2009

More on Adobe CS5 Flash Compilation for iPhone Binaries

Daring Fireball has been linking to some interesting discussions on Adobe’s recent announcement that Flash CS5 will compile “ahead of time” native iPhone binaries that can be submitted, as is, to Apple’s iTunes App Store.

First [...]


Oct 6 2009

Adobe CS5 to Allow Flash to Compile iPhone Apps

Since Adobe can’t get Flash on the iPhone — yet — they figure the next best thing is to let Flash CS5 and ActionScript 3 compile native iPhone apps that can be submitted to the [...]