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Steve Jobs claims Adobe Flash is a CPU hog
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly stepped up his war of words against Adobe and its widely used Flash platform.
According to numerous reports out of Silicon Valley, Jobs has been on a holy anti-Flash crusade of late. During a recent closed door meeting with the Wall Street Journal, Jobs contemptuously dismissed the platform as a "CPU hog" full of "security holes" and "old technology."
He allegedly went on to confirm that Apple was not planning to support Flash on its upcoming iPad or any future versions of the iPhone.
But Jobs didn’t stop there. Internal sources claim that the CEO extraordinaire went as far as to say that Flash was the leading cause of Mac crashes and that HTML5 was the future during a recent employee meeting.
Not to be outJobbed by Apple, Adobe chief Shantanu Narayen has dismissed Apple’s criticisms and issued a stern warning against ignoring its powerful eco-system of partners.
Narayen has also described Apple’s business model as a " proprietary lock" which deprives consumers of their right to view the web in all its Flash-enabled glory.
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Smart Phone User (not verified)
As i said before Flash would break Apples Greedy Cash System. Watch HD Videos on streaming Sites instead of buying of iTunes, playing Games without giving Steve Mobs his 30% cut, maybe even good interactive Newspapers with moving Ads.
Never ever, all that must pay a cut to Steve Mobs. Yes, Apple is the new Content Mafia.
r4 gold (not verified)
Jobs is then rumored to have gone on to compare Flash to a number of now-defunct technologies that Apple abandoned, including floppy drives, old data ports, and even the CD, replaced by the iPod and iTunes.
Ralf_The_Dog (not verified)
And what of those things could not be done with HTML 5? If you have two solutions that do the same thing, go with the one that is lighter weight.
Ralf_The_Dog (not verified)
More powerful computers are not for running operating systems. More powerful computers are for running applications. Not every problem can be broken up between processors. Fewer problems are solvable with GPGPU. I hate it when I see
companies writing bad code, throwing our clock cycles away. Currently for work I run all Macs for my UI computers. For my heavy lifters, I SSH into stripped down Red Hat or Cent OS. I find it sad that the older an operating system is, the better
it is for computationally intensive tasks and as a server (Other than ability to address large amounts of memory and large hard disks.)
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