Apple's Jobs: Adobe Flash Is Closed, Unstable, Antiquated
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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 the past and not innovating to keep up with the mobile Web.
"Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven – they say we want to protect our App Store – but in reality it is based on technology issues," Jobs wrote in a note posted to the Apple Web site.
Apple's recently released iPad tablet does not support Adobe's Flash technology, meaning that Flash-based videos (like those on Hulu.com) accessed in the iPad's Web browser will not play. Companies like YouTube and Netflix have gotten around this issue by developing apps that play on the iPad, prompting Adobe to accuse Apple of ignoring Flash so it could make a few extra dollars via App Store purchases.
Jobs denied this, and said that "iPhone, iPod, and iPad users aren't missing much video" because online video is "also available in a more modern format, H. 264," which works on Apple products.
Jobs highlighted six specific reasons Apple takes issue with Adobe Flash.
Steve Jobs has a lot of gall to complain about proprietary systems! Apple is the KING of proprietary. Nearly everything "Apple" is exclusive and proprietary!
Apple = PROPRIETARY!