“Three and half minutes into this interview with star FOX Business reporter Shibani Joshi, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen begins talking about Apple’s decision to ban Adobe’s Flash from its iPhone, iPad, and iPods,” Nicholas Carlson reports for The Business Insider.
Carlson reports, “He says ‘flash is synonymous with the Internet’ and that Apple ‘hurts customers.’”
MacDailyNews Note: Narayen also stated, “Our ‘content publisher partners’ …are increasingly telling us they want to offer this content once and deploy it across multiple platforms.”
Watch the video here.
MacDailyNews Take: The Ingrate Gazoo strikes again. His “our ‘content publisher partners’ …are increasingly telling us…” statement is particularly pure bullshit.
Adobe should have focused more on Apple’s Mac instead of foolishly waiting for the platform to die and then, when it didn’t drop dead as you hoped, treating Mac users as second-class citizens while pimping inferior Windows PCs. Flash is a proprietary, resource-hogging, browser-crashing abomination and we don’t want ported software on our iPhones, iPads, or Macs because software designed for the lowest common denominator is inferior to software designed to take advantage of individual platforms’ strengths. Adobe is lazy and they want to cater to developers like themselves.
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Note to advertisers: (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: 50+ million iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting brand new iPad users or 35+ million iPod touch users. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.
Help kill Adobe’s Flash:
• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.
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