[Speaking about Mr. Jobs's assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, Mr. Narayan says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something "to do with the Apple operating system."]
Wow. Any support I had for Mr. Narayan and Flash went right out the window with this one snarky remark. He might as well just blame the users for choosing a Mac in the first place...
It's the one thing I love about chrome -- when flash crashes, I just hit reload. It happens about once a day for me. One time flash crashed so hard, no other flash sites would work until I rebooted the computer.
Agree that Mr. Narayan comment was not a great one but he has a point. Userland applications should not crash the operating system. If Mr. Jobs meant: "No. 1 cause of Safari crashes" then I would agree with Mr. Jobs because Flash does crashes Safari a lot. This means that both Safari and Flash have pending bugs to be fixed (I wonder which one has more bugs per line of code?)
Non-technical responses, lots of dodging and hand-waving, saying things are a smokescreen without rebutting direct points. Very, very bad move for Adobe. Why would they want to get into a pissing contest with Apple and let Jobs control the conversation?
Here is my question on the open spec part of flash: "Which non-Adobe flash client can be used to play videos on Hulu?". I think the answer is none because of threats made by Adobe.
Ben Horowitz had a post yesterday about founding CEOs vs professional CEOs(http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/). This seems to be almost a perfect example of his point. The founding CEO makes a technical argument about why change is needed and the professional CEO defends his companies current position.
It completely lags any credibility when a hired gun debate with an innovator and founder. Wish he would have waited till he actually had something to say.
This maybe a little of topic but I was reading TUAW and and some one commented that today Apple stock gained and Adobe stock fell. I googled it to check myself and I find it really amusing.
I really wonder about the personal relationship and history between Jobs and Adobe's current exec. I also wonder if anything that happened during the NeXT years affected his thinking (e.g. Display Postscript).
[+] [-] j79|16 years ago|reply
Wow. Any support I had for Mr. Narayan and Flash went right out the window with this one snarky remark. He might as well just blame the users for choosing a Mac in the first place...
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... at that point I stopped and wondered why I am reading this crap.
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The current Adobe execs are pretty much just business folks brought in to make money, once the founder/CEO/CTOs (Geschke and Warnock) left.