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...

[UTube2K6]

This is a lie, this is a fact that Flash is faster than html5.

[Hi675445]

he hate flash not good enough for him if it crashes it will give it a bad name so wait for someing good like htm5 to fill and make video play

[jujubeyuan]

Steve did an incredible service for adobe by pointing out to them, years early, that their "horse", flash, is actually a nag meant for the glue factory than the race track at Churchill Downs.

[bobby4500]

lol stevie died first lmfao

[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]

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...