Text Of Apple CEO Jobs' Memo About Adobe's Flash

Release Date 29 Apr, 2010 in Wall Street Journal

 
   

Apple CEO Steve Jobs details objections to Adobe's Flash

San Jose Mercury News - Sue McAllister - 29 Apr, 2010
Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad will not run applications based on Adobe's Flash because that video technology is unreliable, ...

News-Flash: Apple-Adobe battle heats up

San Francisco Chronicle - Ryan Kim - 29 Apr, 2010
(04-29) 13:30 PDT -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs' launched a broad attack against Adobe Systems and its Web technology Flash today, explaining in clear detail why ...

Brian Caulfield is a senior editor in the Silicon Valley bureau of Forbes

Forbes (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
It all comes down to one thing, however: payback. Jobs feels that Adobe has skipped support for Apple's technologies for too long. ...

Adobe Chief Responds To Steve Jobs Rant

Forbes (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal Thursday, Adobe Chief Executive Santanu Narayen addressed some of the points made by Apple Steve Jobs in a ...

Adobe CEO hits back in row with Steve Jobs over Flash on Apple's iPhone

The Guardian (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
Narayen tells Wall Street Journal that 'extraordinary attack' contains 'patently false' information and is a 'smokescreen'. And: does he use an iPhone? ...

Steve Jobs' Thoughts Won't Shut Up the Flash Mob

PC World - Jared Newman - 29 Apr, 2010
Before Steve Jobs sat down to write an angry letter about why Adobe Flash stinks, he should've realized that this war of words cannot be won. ...

Flash video rejection explained by Apple

Financial Times - Joseph Menn - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs, Apple chief executive, took the rare step on Thursday of publishing an open letter explaining why the technology ...

Jobs Attacks Flash as Unfit for iPhone

Wall Street Journal - Yukari Iwatani Kane, Ben Worthen - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs escalated Apple Inc.'s battle with Adobe Systems Inc., publishing a lengthy essay that responds to ...

Text Of Apple CEO Jobs' Memo About Adobe's Flash

Wall Street Journal - 29 Apr, 2010
By Dow Jones Apple Inc. (AAPL) has published on its main Web site a memo signed "Steve Jobs" that, in uncharacteristic fashion, details Chief Executive ...

In rare public move, Jobs details his problems with popular Web standard

MarketWatch - John Letzing - 29 Apr, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs issued a rare public critique of products developed by ...

Apple CEO Explains Flash Ban

InformationWeek - Antone Gonsalves - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs cites security, poor performance and no support for touch-based interfaces as problems with Adobe's cross-platform browser plug-in. ...

Highlights: The Journal's Exclusive Interview With Adobe CEO

Wall Street Journal (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
Earlier on Thursday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an essay in which he took Adobe to task over its Flash software, which Apple does not support on its ...

Steve Jobs Claims Flash Will Kill the Mobile Web

Wired News (blog) - John C Abell - 29 Apr, 2010
The estrangement is complete: Let the messy divorce begin. Steve Jobs has gone public about his problems with Flash, the omnipresent web ...

Steve Jobs trashes Adobe's Flash

Computerworld - Gregg Keizer - 29 Apr, 2010
Computerworld - Adobe's Flash is slow, drains batteries, isn't suitable for touchscreen devices and poses security problems, Apple CEO Steve ...

Steve Jobs slams Flash, says it's a proprietary, security and battery ...

San Francisco Chronicle (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
UPDATE: To hear Adobe's side of it, check out the Wall Street Journal's live blog of its interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. ...

Steve Jobs issues open letter on Flash

Register - Andrew Orlowski - 29 Apr, 2010
"It's old. It's rubbish for mobile. Namaste", would have been succinct, and quite adequate, but His Steveness ...

In the Apple vs. Adobe Flash fight, who is right?

Wall Street Journal - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs escalated Apple's battle with Adobe, publishing an essay that responds to criticism of his company's decision to ban Adobe's popular Flash ...

Steve Jobs offers his 'Thoughts on Flash'

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - Shane Richmond - 29 Apr, 2010
Apple's refusal to support Adobe Flash on iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads has drawn criticism from ...

Apple boss Steve Jobs explains ban on Flash

BBC News - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs has used an open letter to defend Apple's decision not to allow Flash on many of the firm's products. Neither the iPod, iPhone nor iPad can run ...

Apple's Steve Jobs Posts Public Letter on Flash

ABC News - Liz Heron - 29 Apr, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has written a rare public explanation for why his company's products don't use the Adobe Flash program, slamming Flash for ...

Apple's Jobs criticizes Flash's 'closed system'

Reuters - Gabriel Madway - 29 Apr, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29 (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Thursday called Adobe Systems (ADBE.O) Flash multimedia software a ...

Apple CEO Steve Jobs rips Adobe Flash

USA Today - Nancy Blair - 29 Apr, 2010
Apple CEO Steve Jobs stepped up Apple's criticism of Adobe's Flash technology in a stinging post today entitled simply "Thoughts on Flash. ...

Apple's Jobs: Adobe Flash Is Closed, Unstable, Antiquated

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs on Thursday fired back at Adobe, denying that Apple eschewed Flash on the iPad to protect its App Store, and instead accusing Adobe of living in ...

Steve Jobs lectures Adobe about open standards

Inquirer - Lawrence Latif - 29 Apr, 2010
APPLE'S DEAR LEADER Steve Jobs has decided to wax his lyrical on why Adobe Flash is not a good thing for his followers. ...

No Flash on the iPhone? Apple's Steve Jobs Finally Explains Why

FOXNews - Jeremy A. Kaplan - 29 Apr, 2010
In an open letter posted to the company's website, Apple CEO Steve Jobs finally explains why he has refused to let Adobe's popular Flash ...

Jobs Gives Very Candid Thoughts on Flash

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Jennifer Valentino-DeVries - 29 Apr, 2010
The feud between Apple and Adobe has been heating up for a while now, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs has taken it to a whole new ...

Steve Jobs slams Adobe Flash in open letter - and maybe kills it for mobile

The Guardian (blog) - 29 Apr, 2010
Steve Jobs has defended Apple's decision not to allow Adobe's Flash technology on the iPhone, iPod and iPad - and cited a series of reasons why he thinks ...

Apple: “Flash Falls Short”

Barron's (blog) - Eric Savitz - 29 Apr, 2010
“I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe's Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow ...

Steve Jobs: What's wrong with Flash

Fortune - Philip Elmer-DeWitt - 29 Apr, 2010
"Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain." So begins the meat of Steve Jobs' ...

Jobs: Why Apple banned Flash from the iPhone

CNET - Stephen Shankland - 29 Apr, 2010
"Flash was created during the PC era--for PCs and mice," Jobs said in the letter. "New open standards created in the mobile era, ...

 

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