D8 Video: Steve Jobs on Flash 2010

Steve Jobs insists that he isn't out to crush Adobe (ADBE). But at the opening session of the D8 conference, the Apple CEO (AAPL) explained at length why he's done with Adobe's Flash

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[technob0lt]

Flash Dead! Steve Jobs Smiling somewhere!

[delajortiz]

Steve Jobs's prophecy....end of Flash...

[bishopdante]

If Adobe were a different sort of a company, they'd have opened up the Shockwave format to the W3C to implement as a standard browser feature, and sell the Flash SDK!!

[bishopdante]

Mobile Flash is a problem because Adobe's C++ code won't run on ARM based devices, they'd have to do a lot of rewriting and also long-term testing to get it working...

[bishopdante]

Flash's problem, and performance advantage is C++. Browsers are written in C++, so the thinking is that as more functions appear in the browser, you won't need a plugin. In actual fact, apple's iOS browsers don't support any plugins, it's not just Flash.

Adobe could perfectly feasibly write their own flash enabled iOS browser and release it as an app. They haven't done this. They're lazy, really!!

[Nubatemykaikx2]

So really there just to lazy to put Adobe in

[transformersloverjon]

@technob0lt He's smiling in his grave

[WitnessGraph]

Sry, Steve Jobs wasnt totally right about Flash. Flash didnt just "died", Steve Jobs "killed" Flash. Besides, Apple uses the image that Steve Jobs has as propaganda, advertising. Specially now that Steve Jobs died, apple is Abusing on the image that Steve Jobs left. Business is Business. Apple is good, Steve Jobs was a great, but that dosnt means Adobe Flash isnt a great Software. Its just that Apple was (and is) getting more money when they limits the hardware usability. This time, they won...

[francescomm]

The fact is not weather Flash is good or bad. The fact is that the platform maker (Apple) should let developers (Adobe) buil what they want. Then the marked decides what is good or bad.

In this case we have the platform maker deciding for their own commercial reasons what is good or bad for other developers to build. This is horrible.

[OverPrice95]

you know what's funny? I'm seeing this video in HTML5....

[Skullthehutt]

@Haldered Flash Player on mobile devices. Read it carefully. The reason behind is that AIR will pick up form now on.

[Skullthehutt]

@MarkMifsud HTML5 is an attempt to mimic Flex contextual components and implement them in HTML. So instead of HTML4 div class tag we have nav tag. Wow what an improvement since most of the pages we open are dynamically generated one way or another. Flash is a virtual machine which gives developers one promise it will behave same way in any environment. Try that with HTML, any HTML.