“‘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.
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• 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.
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Hey Kevin, “Go Fsck Yourself” With ur Antiquated Crap.
FAIL. I can’t just start Safari, Firefox, Opera, or even Internet Explorer and view Flash content without installing a plugin. When I can do that, then be can rant all he wants about a closed system. But for now, Adobe still doesn’t understand that Flash is the walled garden.
Flash plugin = railroad gauge
The Apple/Railroad analogy is preposterous on many obvious levels.
Adobe cancelled their mobile version of flash (development) a few years ago. Now they are bemoaning their bad decision and now trying to get folks to feel sorry for them. Kinda hope that Apple buys them when they become a penny stock company and build some good stuff.
I’m getting annoyed by Adobe.
I’m hoping Apple invents it’s own professional suite of photo editing and vector drawing proframs.
Lynch was expecting CS5 to sell like gangbusters. Now there’s no reason for anyone to get it.
God help the ignorant fools who actually believe this utter nonsense.
Apple’s train track isn’t the only one in town–it just skirts around the seedier parts of town. The parts of town a person would want to avoid–if he were smart.
They’re not even telling other companies to stop building their tracks–just that their highly stylized, ultra-cool, expensive trains will no longer run on other companies lines.
And who cares if it IS the only track in town–IT’S GOIN’ TO THE PROMISED LAND, BABY!!!
I’d ride that train any day!…..except Thursday’s–that’s the day I give grandma her bath.
Marginalizing Adobe by applying a label proves nothing.
@MEES
Apple isn’t going to support their production and creative software they are still selling much less invent anything new.
Apple is a mobile device company. The Mac and its OS are history.*
*Source: Steve Jobs
Well I say Adobe is like Microsoft.
Continuously putting out defective products hoping their customers will not notice or just wait for yet another defective upgrade.
“‘Apple’s playing this strategy where they want to create a walled garden around the Internet”
If this were true, Adobe would have a valid point.
However, the truth is:
“they want to create a walled garden WITHIN the Internet”
The fact is that consumers know this going in, and there are numerous other choices if consumers do not like this arrangement.
Adobe’s board and shareholders better put some muzzles on their management. Every time that they publicly comment on this subject they come off as self-serving boobs. Their analogies are lame and logic is completely non-existent. Adobe is clearly banking on the typical end user being totally ignorant on the issues involved in this debate.
So Adobe, go and build your own Tablet and make it run Flash and whatever else you want it to. Quit crying about Apple.
Does MS let it’s customers run Flash websites on the XBox 360? Oh, right, it doesn’t have a web browser. But that’s their choice. Are you going to claim that just because something has a web browser that they MUST allow you to pollute it with Flash?
A “Smattering of Applause” ? Sounds like the audience is more sophisticated than Mr. Lunch. Certainly more polite!
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See, I can string words together too. Makes perfect sense doesn’t it!
The issue here isn’t whether or not Flash is reliable, buggy, or just lazy. It’s does Steve Jobs get to play God and pick and chose what technology or what programs we are “allowed” to play with? He has created his garden, called us his children, and said, “Thou shall not eat from the tree of Flash.”
This is why I despise analogies in almost all cases. The analogues are almost always selected in order to force an ideological viewpoint into a situation rather than illuminate the situation. Apple is not a monopoly in any way that matters in the cell phone market. That they have a massively successful store can’t possibly make them the only store. So drawing comparisons to said barons only serves to tie Apple’s image to that of an actual abusive monopoly and make emotional pleas to an innacurate portrayal.
No one is forced to buy the iPad. If you don’t like the fact Flash is not available on the iPad go and buy one of the many other amazingly popular and successful tablets on the market that support Flash. Oh wait a minute there aren’t any others.
Too bad you treated Apple like shit this past decade eh Adobe?
Payback is a bitch.
As usual, Daniel Eran Dilger has posted a good take on Adobe’s claim against Apple.
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/05/05/adobes-flash-monopoly-game-against-apple/
Payback a bitch, I can hardly wait for Steve’s response.
I think they have it backwards, Adobe wants a walled garden with Flash while Apple wants an open internet with HTML5, … and control of their platform. Maybe Adobe fears the day when Apples market share is near 100%, then they might wall off the internet!
Here’s the thing Adobe – stand in front of a 200 mph express train and you’re gonna get run over!
We’re at the crossroads of a new gauge of (media) transport. Get on track, or be left standing in the sidings…
What BS.
Apple/Jobs wants open standards (== standardized tracks).
What Adobe wants, are their own tracks beside the standard ones that only their engines can use. Apple retorts by disallowing Adobe’s engines that are modified to run on standard tracks (which do not run very well and use lots of coal).
adumby is just full of hot air…
@Bartsimpsonhead
“…Adobe – stand in front of a 200 mph express train and you’re gonna get run over!
Nice!
Adobe,…meet Microsoft, you’re gonna be sharing a room together for the next millenium.