Adobe responds, Microsoft weighs in
If you’re an Adobe partisan, this nearly 15 minute interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will sound agreeable and intelligent. If you’re a Mac OS or iPhone OS device user, it sounds like a lot of the same old promises and jargon.
Like Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen’s coments in Wall Street Journal interview are a restatement of the graphics software giant’s position.
It’s more than a little disingenuous to insist that Flash is an open system. Moreover, it’s pretty absurd to insist that multi-platform can best be achieved using Flash versus standards that are actually open, like HTML5, CSS 3, JavaScript and WebGL.
Whether or not you agree with Steve Jobs, it’s clear that Adobe’s been caught flat footed by the mobile revolution and they haven’t delivered.
Fundamentally, the reason Adobe’s pushing mobile Flash, which is already years late, is they’re not prepared to support the standards. Moreover, there’s no lock in for them even if they did have the tools.
A smokescreen?
Lastly, to blithely dismiss the serious technical issues afflicting Flash — security, performance, stability — is irresponsible at best.
Yes, Apple says that there are problems. However, Microsoft is also saying that Flash has serious security, performance and stability issues. And, this is also quite important, the software giant has said the next version of Internet Explorer will only support H.264 video.
Of course, if you don’t want to believe either Apple or Microsoft, hackers themselves say Flash is a major security risk.
Instead asking why not Flash, we should be looking at why Flash is desirable let alone necessary…
What’s your take?
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