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Maybe Steve Jobs was right about Flash on mobile
Apple’s unwillingness to support Flash on the iPhone was cemented this past April when Steve Jobs penned a letter outlining all the reasons why Apple is not too keen on the technology. At the same time, critics like to point to no Flash support as a key downside to iPhone ownership. All the while, the [...]
Continue reading...Adobe re-brands mobile Photoshop app as “Photoshop Express”; iPad support now included
Friday, August 13, 2010
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Back in October 2009, Adobe released a Photoshop.com mobile app for the iPhone that did incredibly well on the app store. The app, as you might expect, was a toned down version of Photoshop. Some of the available tools included the ability to crop, rotate, and adjust exposure, saturation and tint. Also bundled in the [...]
Continue reading...EU joins FTC in investigation over Apple’s restrictive Flash policies
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
In yet another sign that the EU has too much time on its hands, the New York Post is reporting that the European governing body will be joining the FTC in their investigation into Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the iPhone. The investigation could reportedly last up to another 4 to 6 months. At [...]
Continue reading...Palm confused about the delay in porting Flash over to WebOS
Monday, June 21, 2010
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Electronista reports: Adobe hasn’t given any signs that it’s close to porting Flash to webOS, Palm said in an AT&T online app development seminar on Thursday. When asked about the multiple delays, a representative said that Palm didn’t ‘know what the hold-up is’ with getting it ready. Adobe itself hasn’t commented on the state of the webOS [...]
Continue reading...Adobe announces new Digital Viewer Technology for Magazines
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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Adobe announced today the arrival of its new Digital Viewer Technology for magazines. The software makes it easier for publishers to transform hardcopies of their Magazine into digital creations capable of running on a variety of platforms. Most recently, Adobe’s digital viewer software helped Wired Magazine develop their iPad app which got off to a [...]
Continue reading...Steve Jobs email: We respect and admire Adobe, we just don’t wan’t Flash on our devices
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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As the emails from Apple CEO Steve Jobs continue to trickle in, a MacStories reader named Josh Cheney last week emailed Apple’s big boss and asked him if he hated Adobe and their products or just their stance on Flash. The email exchange is as follows: “Do you hate Adobe and their products (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) [...]
Continue reading...When Adobe refused to develop video software for the Mac
Monday, May 17, 2010
From a 2005 Fortune piece on Apple and the impetus for its development of Final Cut Pro and iMovie: But a 1998 meeting in which Jobs asked Adobe Systems executives to develop a Mac version of their consumer video-editing program changed his mind. “They said flat-out no,” Jobs recalls. “We were shocked, because they had been [...]
Continue reading...Apple responds to Adobe’s “We love Apple” campaign
Friday, May 14, 2010
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Adobe this week launched a new online ad campaign professing their love of Apple, while at the same time, criticizing Apple for taking away the freedom of developers and from users who can’t access Flash content from Apple mobile devices. Not to be outdone, Apple responded with a love letter of its own. Ah, the things that [...]
Continue reading...Adobe addresses Apple in new ad campaign as Adobe co-founders publish open letter
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Unless Adobe releases some sort of magical version of Flash that all of a sudden runs swimmingly on mobile devices, you can bet your bottom dollar that Apple will never support it on the iPhone or the iPad. Hell, even if mobile Flash becomes robust and extremely popular, Apple will still probably choose not to support [...]
Continue reading...Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich steps up to defend Apple
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Earlier this week, a number of sources reported that the FTC was attempting to figure out which regulatory body would be investigating Apple for alleged anti-competitive behavior stemming from their decision to disallow apps developed with cross-platform development tools - such as the Flash to iPhone compiler in the just released CS 5 suite of [...]
Continue reading...Former Adobe engineers say Adobe executives ignored the growing influence of the iPhone
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Steve Jobs’ letter on Flash elicited a strong response from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, who in a video interview with the WSJ yesterday, attempted to rebuke many of the complaints, both technical and otherwise, listed by Jobs. Now, two former Adobe mobile engineers are speaking up and are laying the blame for Adobe’s Flash woes on [...]
Continue reading...Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen responds to Jobs’ critique
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, who actually began his career at Apple, speaks with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal to discuss many of the issues raised in Steve Jobs’ letter about Flash. If you watch the video below and are up for a little bit of fun, here’s a quick and dirty drinking game [...]
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Monday, August 23, 2010
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