Apple’s stance on Flash is pretty well-known, with Steve Jobs going so far as to say that the majority of crashes on Safari are because of Flash. Below, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch took some time to talk to Kara Swisher from All Things D about all things Apple and Flash, while also addressing some of the anti-Flash sentiment [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 5, 2010
Steve Jobs made headlines last week when he reportedly referred to Adobe as lazy during a company townhall meeting about the iPad. Now, Hardmac reports, citing a source close to an Apple executive, some of the more precise details surrounding Jobs’ characterization of Adobe as lazy and why Apple and Adobe haven’t been seeing eye [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 31, 2010
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Last week, Apple held an informal town-hall style meeting where company employees engaged in a Q&A session with CEO Steve Jobs. Wired, citing an anonymous person who was there, yet not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, writes that Jobs addressed a bevy of issues, including Apple’s stance on flash, the next-gen iPhone, and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 29, 2010
In a post titled “Broken link?”, Adrian Ludwig of Adobe calls Apple out for not including flash on the newly announced iPad, and argues that Apple is ultimately ruining the end-user experience. As I drove by Yerba Buena Theater in San Francisco this morning, I couldn’t help but be impressed. Apple certainly has the ability to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 2, 2009
The iPhone still can’t run flash and it probably won’t support flash anytime soon, if ever. But that hasn’t stopped Adobe from lobbying to get flash up and running on the iPhone, with their most recent move being to basically call Apple out. When iPhone users visit Adobe’s flash download page, they’re greeted with non [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 19, 2009
Last week, Adobe released its Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone. The app, naturally, is a striped down version of Adobe’s popular Photoshop editing program and so far it’s off to a more than impressive start. John Nack, writing for Adobe, writes that the app has already been downloaded over 1 million times in less than 2 weeks. Below [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 12, 2009
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Adobe recently released its Photoshop.com Mobile app for the iPhone. As you’d expect, the app is a striped down version of Adobe’s popular Photoshop editing program. iPodnn writes: The new app can crop, flip and rotate photos, or adjust exposure, saturation and tint, with option of converting to black-and-white. Two filters are included: Sketch renders a photo [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 5, 2009
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At the Max Conference in LA, Adobe announced the arrival of Flash Player 10.1, an upgrade which promises to make delivering flash video more of a reality than it has been in the past for devices that haven’t been up to snuff. Flash 10.1 will improve performance by taking advantage of GPU acceleration on a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Adobe today announced the release of Photoshop Elements 8 for both the Mac and PC. Photoshop Elements is essentially a watered down, yet significantly cheaper version of Adobe’s popular and flagship product, Photoshop. The most recent version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac was version 6, with the seventh iteration only available for Windows users. That’s [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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Using a sample survey of 1,045 professional photographers in North American, independent research company InfoTrends found that most photogs prefer using Adobe Lightroom for raw image processing as opposed to Apple’s Aperture program. To be clear, the data below doesn’t refer to actual unit sales, but to actual photographer preference.
Continue reading...Friday, August 28, 2009
The WebKit engine has become the de-facto standard for mobile browsers, something which takes on broader implications in light of Apple’s unparalleled involvement and contribution to the WebKit open-source project. In addition to Apple, a number of other companies such as Nokia and Google are heavily involved with WebKit development, but with approximately 30 webkit developers [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 17, 2009
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Adobe announced last week that future versions of its Creative Suite software (which includes programs such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver) will stop supporting Macs running on old PowerPc architechture. In a statement issued to consumers, Adobe noted: Customers are being notified to provide fair notice of any changes regarding the operating systems and hardware supported by Adobe solutions. By [...]
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