Adobe Jack Slaps Apple iPhone
As of just a few days ago it seems that Adobe has had (what I like to think) the last laugh in the ongoing iPhone debacle. They have stopped the development of the Flash-to-iPhone tool that would be shipped with the new Adobe CS5. This comes shortly after Apple introduced an updated OS Developer Agreement that stops developers from using third-party applications like the one Adobe was developing. While this won’t stop Adobe from shipping the tool with CS5 it will stop the millions of iPhone users from viewing content on their phones.
Let’s be real here, Adobe and Apple go back like chic-o-sticks and ColecoVision. For as along as I can remember, I have been using Adobe products solely on Apple computers. With this history it makes no sense to me that Flash wouldn’t be a standard app or function for the iPhone. Let’s also not forget the tremendous amount of websites with Flash content… and a lot of them are fully built in Flash too. So what would stop Apple from including Flash into the iPhone?
Apparently, Steve Jobs dislikes Flash. According to PC World, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly called Adobe’s Flash technology “buggy” and a “CPU hog”. I haven’t had much experience with Flash on the side of it being a “CPU hog”. I find it’s more often the browsers that I’m viewing content through that are the real hogs, not the Flash. As far as it being “buggy”, what technology isn’t buggy? When tech changes on an almost daily basis it’s tough to NOT find bugs.
That being said, and considering Apple’s “superior” OS, it makes no sense to me that Flash and iPhone couldn’t get together like their parent companies once did. Adobe now says that they are concentrating more on the Android and other mobile devices that will be able to utilize Flash more efficiently. While it still baffles me and many other Apple fans I can’t help but say, “too bad for you, Apple”… when you are the “cutting edge” you can’t let something simple like Flash trip you up… there are phones with 20 gigs of memory, you’re telling me they can’t run Flash?
So there’s this guy that we work with from time to time; he’s one of those “uppity blogger” types. I think he does something with Search Engine Optimization too… but who knows what’s really behind that boss goatee. Apparently he “liked” Facebook’s popular … “Like” … system and wanted to grab that functionality for his own, somewhat questionable, devices. All kidding aside, the team and MIND was contacted to develop a WordPress Plugin that is THE “Like” button from facebook… now available on your blog – as of yesterdays announcement at the F8 conference from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Using The Facebook Universal Like button a user can add the “Like” button to any post. When a visitor “Likes” your post it will show up on their Facebook page (after they login of course). You then get yet another non-substantial feather in your cap in the form of a thumbs up (+1)! WEEEEEEEE!!!
