“‘Apple’s playing this strategy where they want to create a walled garden’ around the Internet, Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch remarked at a tech conference in San Francisco. He then compared the company’s moves to the deployment of railways with varying gauges in the 1800s, which precluded compatibility with the trains of rivals,” Letzing reports. “‘If you look at what’s going on right now, it’s kind of like railroads in the 1800s,’ Lynch said.”
Letzing reports, “‘I don’t think it’s the role of the company to exercise that judgment over what people are making,’ Lynch said to a smattering of applause, while charging that Apple’s practices are ‘preventing healthy competition.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: We liken Adobe to a software company run by lazy illogical ingrates.
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.
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Those that can – Do
Those that can’t – make Loud Noise
Give us back Aldus or Macromedia, then there will be competition
So desiring content delivered via an open standard vice a proprietary bloated piece of outdated garbage is akin to railroads of years past. Adobe CEO is nuts at best – sell short on adobe ?
@ jalopy
You got it…that’s the key…unbundle Adobe so we can get the best application operating unencumbered from the 19th or 18th Century mindset.
Adobe, squealing like a stuck pig that’s near death.
I’m a marketing consultant and designer. I’m running cs4 and it completely sucks. Going back to cs3 and sure as hell have no interest in cs5.
I really hope some company comes along and tears adobe a new one. So pissed at them. Crappy product, crappy service, crappy mindset.
Lynch is so full of crap. If he’d done his damned job and made Flash reliable, then Apple would have wanted it on the iPhone.
-jcr
How about if Adobe changed Flash to generate both Flash and HTML5 compatible video?
Adobe, You’re really asking for it.
You will loose this war so miserably, that it would be a lesson for the ages…
You want an all out war? You have no allies.
You will collapse. start saving those exorbitant upgrade $$$, because you’ll be paying high legal fees to defend against every one and a few class actions, while selling less upgrades to pissed off users.
I think the railroad analogy is a perfect example of competition in action. If Adobe believes that “Apple Railroad” is laying an incompatible “track” in the marketplace, then Adobe should be unconcerned, as the market would ultimately render “Apple Railroad” obsolete.
But clearly, Adobe IS concerned. Which belies that they believe that their own “tracks” may not be the guage of the future.
If Adobe wants an analogy to describe what’s happening int he tech sector right now, try this: Adobe is fiddling with building railroads while Apple is perfecting the Lear Jet…
To bad the latest facts show adobes flash losing marketshare to H.264 big time. It looks like adobes railroad is coming to a dead end. While Apples railroad is expanding with no end In sight. Apple looks to the best technology to do the job. Adobe looks at the same old thing over and over.
“‘Apple’s playing this strategy where they want to create a walled garden’ around the Internet”
So, by attempting to steer people towards OPEN standards Apple is trying to create a walled garden? Huh?
Magic word: living – This fool is living in denial.
I have to think Adobe makes a crapton of money from Flash, because that’s the only way their recent behavior makes any sense at all.
The problem with this “railroad” analogy is that the gage of the tracks are analogous to today’s HTML Open Standards … they are the conduit to the media product.
To continue the analogy, Apple has called that only locomotives with the Apple set of controls (Deadman’s Switch, etc) is licensed for use. Otherwise, go use someone else’s train.
Adobe’s Flash klunge is an attempted replacement for Apple’s engineer’s controls of the locomotive – – and effectively, Adobe is saying “Trust Us” (with the locomotive’s controls), and Apple is simply saying “No”.
-hh
No, Mr. Lynch, Apple is trying to keep the Interstate highway system open to all consumers, regardless of which car they choose to drive — a marked contrast to making everyone drive a Flashmobile.
The railroad analogy is perfectly accurate. However Apple is laying down standard gauge track (HTML5, C,C++,obj-C) and adobe is building its own narrow gauge trains (flash).
Anyone else noticing how few Flash ads are showing up on MDN lately?
FUD BS.
That’s better MDN. Now you’re making it clear that it’s Adobe’s management who you regard as lazy ingrates, not all of the staff.
My own beef with Adobe relates to what they did to Macromedia’s FreeHand.
Micro Me:
The fish stinks from the head.
I just tried out pixelmator yesterday and wow its pretty awesome. If only it had a few other additions to it like applying layer styles and the ability to turn them off or on it would be soo much better.
Unbelievable hypocrisy….. Unbelievable.
Adobe is no pussy – as Steve is discovering in ways he may not have predicted. Oh, he’ll win but it’s going to take longer and there will be blood stains in places he may live to regret.
There are ads on MDN? That AdBlock Plus for Firefox works well, I guess.
Pride come before the fall. Goodbye Flash, we won’t miss you.