In the high-tech bubble that is Silicon Valley, engineering talent is king, and the battle for that talent is often fierce. Indeed, Steve Jobs was so paranoid about other companies stealing his employees that the “About This Mac” option on the Apple menu bar – which used to list the names of employees involved in the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 9, 2011
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By David Goldman: Whether you view it as a posthumous victory for Steve Jobs or merely Adobe finally coming around to their senses, the company officially announced today its plans to discontinue development of its Flash Player for mobile devices. What’s more, the company boldly proclaimed on its blog that HTML 5 is ultimately the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 12, 2011
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From the day Steve Jobs announced the iPhone, there have always been a vocal minority of users lamenting the device’s lack of Flash support. Over the last few years, Apple and Adobe have engaged in a war of words over Flash that even prompted Steve Jobs to pen an entire letter devoted to explaining why [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 21, 2011
TUAW reports that Adobe has posted a knowledge base article detailing a number of bugs and issues found in a slew of Adobe products running on OS X Lion. The list is quite long and seemingly affects Adobe’s entire product line, but one issue worth noting in particular is Adobe’s admission that their Flash Player [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 4, 2011
Thankfully, it seems that the ongoing feud between Apple and Adobe over Flash is now, for the most part, a thing of the past. But the companies may have a new fight on their hands – control over the high end video editing market. Okay, that’s admittedly a bit hyperbolic, but with the wave of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 11, 2011
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Though Apple won’t be allowing Flash to run on its iOS devices anytime soon, we think it’s safe to say that the beef between Apple and Adobe is ancient history. This past September, Apple revised its developer guidelines to allow the use of third party cross development tools like Flash. The updated guidelines read: In [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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Adobe yesterday released Flash 10.3 beta with new developer features and enhanced user privacy protection, but one of the more interesting additions are setting controls now found within the System Preferences app. The controls allow suers to adjust the Flash Player’s cache, privacy settings, and even microphone and webcam settings.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 17, 2011
Apple’s intransigence when it comes to Flash support on its line of iOS devices has already been discussed ad nauseum. Indeed, the tension between the two companies has, at times, gotten publicly heated – one minute Steve Jobs is writing an anti-Flash screed, the next minute Adobe execs are calling the iPhone a closed platform. [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 7, 2010
Well well well, what do we have here. Adobe and Microsoft joining forces perhaps? The New York Times reports: Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive, recently showed up with a small entourage of deputies at Adobe’s corporate offices in San Francisco to hold a secret meeting with Adobe’s chief executive, Shantanu Narayen. The meeting, which [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 27, 2010
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The Justice Department on Friday announced that it reached a settlement with Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar that effectively precludes them from entering into non-solicitation agreements with one another. Not too long ago, it came to light that Apple and Google, for example, had both agreed not to poach one another’s employees. As [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 23, 2010
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...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...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. [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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...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, [...]
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