Steve Jobs: Funniest line of the decade
in [Digital Cameras]
|
Prev: Back illumination: The fraud that wimpered
Next: Ebel Classic Steel Mother-of-Pearl Mini Ladies Watch 1215420
From: Paul Heslop on 14 May 2010 02:40 Rich wrote: > > The head of Apple said this?!!! Amazing gall. > > BBC: > It follows a letter from Apple boss Steve Jobs in which he defended his > firm's decision not to allow Adobe's Flash technology on many of its > popular products. > > Mr Jobs described Adobe's software - used on many websites for video and > animations - as a "closed system" and "100% proprietary". > > "While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they > are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only > from Adobe." oh ho ho, much funnier than anything anyone has said in the last ten years, ho ho ho ? -- Paul (we break easy) ------------------------------------------------------- Stop and Look http://www.geocities.com/dreamst8me/
From: Mxsmanic on 14 May 2010 03:42 Mr. Strat writes: > Flash is technology that sucks. It needs to go away. Even Microsoft has > sided with Jobs. And Adobe software in general is getting more > virus-prone that Windows. Flash has always been a nuisance. The one and only useful application of flash content is for embedded media players, such as those on YouTube and on many other sites. I have flash disabled on my browser. It will run only if I click on it, which I never do (except for video players).
From: N on 14 May 2010 07:31 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:mlvpu59oamhahifm5p88aqof80i8vm3blj(a)4ax.com... > Mr. Strat writes: > >> Flash is technology that sucks. It needs to go away. Even Microsoft has >> sided with Jobs. And Adobe software in general is getting more >> virus-prone that Windows. > > Flash has always been a nuisance. The one and only useful application of > flash > content is for embedded media players, such as those on YouTube and on > many > other sites. > > I have flash disabled on my browser. It will run only if I click on it, > which > I never do (except for video players). Use a 64 bit browser. There's no Flash. -- N
From: Ray Fischer on 15 May 2010 00:17 Mr. Strat <rag(a)nospam.techline.com> wrote: > Rich >> The head of Apple said this?!!! Amazing gall. >> >> BBC: >> It follows a letter from Apple boss Steve Jobs in which he defended his >> firm's decision not to allow Adobe's Flash technology on many of its >> popular products. >> >> Mr Jobs described Adobe's software - used on many websites for video and >> animations - as a "closed system" and "100% proprietary". >> >> "While Adobe's Flash products are widely available, this does not mean they >> are open, since they are controlled entirely by Adobe and available only >> from Adobe." > >Flash is technology that sucks. It needs to go away. Is that what Jobs told you to say? > Even Microsoft has >sided with Jobs. Notice that Flash works quite well on Windows systems. Maybe you're ... "confused". -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net
From: Ray Fischer on 15 May 2010 00:18
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: >In article <4becad6d$1(a)news.x-privat.org>, Atheist Chaplain ><abused(a)cia.gov> wrote: > >> I think the biggest problem that Jobs has with Flash is that there are >> thousands (if not hundreds of thousands)of flash based games out there on >> the net, and quite a few of them are very well done and this would have a >> detrimental affect on the iTunes App store profits, after all, why would you >> pay for a sometimes shitty iPhone game that cost you money (even if its only >> 99c) when you can play a flash game for free on the net. >> This takes the proprietary control away from Apple. > >except that many of those free flash games are designed for a >mouse/keyboard, Except that many games could easily be modofied to work on a touch screen. If Apple allowed it. -- Ray Fischer rfischer(a)sonic.net |