“U.S. antitrust enforcers are considering an investigation of Apple Inc. following a complaint from Adobe Systems Inc., according to people familiar with the matter,” James Rowley and Arik Hesseldahl report for Bloomberg.
MacDailyNews Take: Who knew that The Ingrate Gazoo was also a little whiny rat bastage, too?
Rowley and Hesseldahl continue, “Adobe says Apple is stifling competition by barring developers from using Adobe’s products to create applications for iPhones and iPads, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to discuss the case.”
MacDailyNews Take: Adobe’s decision-makers would have been better served had they taken the time to understand what antitrust laws and regulations actually cover.
Rowley and Hesseldahl continue, “The complaint triggered discussions between the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission over which agency should review the allegations of anticompetitive behavior, the people said. Neither agency has decided whether it would open an investigation, one person said.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Ooh, discussions. And without any decision made to proceed, too. Scaaary!
Ho hum, another excuse to short the sheet out of the stock yet again. We know what the DOJ and FTC are wasting their time and taxpayers’ dollars on, but where’s the SEC? AWOL as usual.
MacDailyNews Note: 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 35+ million iPod touch users or 1+ million brand new iPad 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 MarketWatch to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• 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.
By the way, do not buy Adobe’s Photoshop Elements until you have tried Pixelmator’s free 30-day trial. We use Pixelmator daily.
adobe what a tool.
I wonder if the news that the matter is being dropped will get as much ‘ink’ as this load of crap?
Let me get this straight. A company whose product is installed on 90+% of Internet connected PC’s, utilized to encode 80+% of web videos, and animates 100% of all annoying web advertising is crying about anti-trust against a company with less than 10% share of the PC market? And they want to use the government to extend and force their proprietary technology in the emerging mobile market with a product that isn’t even available to the general public? Methinks Adobe has their anti-competitive behavior and anti-trust complaints against Apple definitely backwards.
Whinening RAT BASTARD! PATHETIC! What a waste of Time, Resources & Money!!!! FU Adobe go back to you cave and shut the F UP!
OMG! Narayen looks like a Ferengi! That explains everything!
This is consistent with their position.
Whichever agency performs the inquiry, it will hopefully not result in an investigation. Then Adobe can sit and spin.
Wow. I’ve been migrating away from Adobe Crapware for years now. This just re-invigorates my efforts to move away from that POS, no class companies products.
I would like to use Xcode (free) and Objective-C to create Flash content but Adobe is stifling competition by forcing developers to use Actionscript and buy CS5 ($1,300)
I can’t blame Adobe, but I can’t think that Apple’s move is material to their business.
Here, buy PS CS5, only $700!!!!?!?! Are you kidding me?
Adobe should have to pay the costs of this unwarranted investigation after Apple is found to have done nothing wrong.
Let’s see how this hurts developers. XCode required to develop apps for the leading mobileOS and costs nothing. Adobe CS5 is required to develop Flash based apps for the also-rans and beleaguered, and costs $750 or more.
Yea, I can see how free development tools are really hurting developers.
I’ve never really been in the camp that believes Apple should buy Adobe, but with all this petty behavior that Adobe is directing at Apple, I’d argue now that Apple should buy them just to end it once and for all. That, or bust out a superior suite of apps.
MDN = Antitrust law experts.
Adobe should have just logged in here and BOOM! they are straightened out, Flash goes away, Apple wins another bloodbath.
They have to address complaints. Brings the whole issue into the spotlight. Adobe needs to grow up. Their software is buggy and sucks compared to more stable efficient open advancements. That’s life. Adapt or die.
Poor Shamu, somebody get him a hankie!
Half or Adobe’s customers are Mac users. Deny Adobe the upgrade revenue of the CS 5 upgrade. By boycotting it. Write the asshole in charge and let him know that if he trys to hurt Apple he is hurting all Apple customers and that we will cut his tree in half for starters and hurt Adobe even more ln the future.
Apple users need a PS And illustrator alternative.
Bring back freehand and give Pixelmator heavy doses of steroids
Software companies; Isn’t anyone up to the challenge of competing ?and breaking Adobe?
@ Berrylium
Shamu the Ferengi!
ROFLMMFAO!
You Murderer! I almost choked to death on my coffee!
We followed MDN’s advice and picked up to copies of Pixelmator yesterday. Adobe finalllllllyyyyyy brings out their lame Captivate for the Mac…meh. Too little too late with a bloated feature set not meeting eLearning’s real needs. Guess Adobe is spending their R&D;$$$$ on executive media training for whining and engineer training for bloat creation. I feel for the customer support people who have to deliver the message and listen to Adobe’s customers.
call the waaaahbulance
adobe gots an owie!
told you not to play on the swings…
Seems like a last ditch effort by Shantanu. I wonder how’s the return on investment from the purchase of Macromedia. That purchase doesn’t look so great now…
@Berrylium
LOL, awesome! +1
from now on he`ll be known as Damon Narayen
Adobe is complaining after they abandoned their mobile platform tools that developers use to create those apps on the iPhone OS platforms. Adobe chooses to be non-competitive non the iPad.
Adobe = Fail
Adobe was brought to Life by Apple and the Mac and will Die by Apple and the Mac. Yes, I consider the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad just extensions of the Mac and OS 10, for one would not be without the other.
Adobe does not care about Mac desktop customers even if they comprise 50% of its desktop business today, because they know the desktop is dying.
What Adobe is targeting is a future of Google-style mobile-web where ubiquitous Adobe apps based on their Flex/AIR platform generate the majority of revenue.
What Adobe needs are 2 things –
1) Drive down Apple sales (yes, their own major desktop revenue) so the industry does not follow the Apple model.
2) Scare other mobile platforms into allowing Flash plug-ins with this threat, when it eventually cobble together one.
WAIT a second: Adobe wants the FTC to examine whether or not Apple forces people to use their software to write programs for iPhone/iPad because FLASH can’t be used to develop for that platform. Where, pray tell, is my choice of Flash development environments? Hmmm??? I’m waiting….
I want the FTC to look into Adobe’s monopoly over their Flash development and distribution channel first.