Apple CEO Steve Jobs Throws Adobe’s Flash in the Garbage Bin

Source: AP

Steve Jobs has publicly given several reasons today why they will never use Adobe's Flash on the company's iPhone - and it's not pretty.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is going on the offensive against Adobe’s Flash technology. He says it’s too buggy, battery-draining and PC-oriented to work on the iPhone and iPad.

In a statement Thursday, Jobs laid out his reasons for excluding Flash — the most popular vehicle for videos and games on the Internet — from Apple’s blockbuster handheld devices.

Apple has been criticized for the omission of Flash, which limits the usefulness of the iPhone. In his rebuttal, Jobs said the most important reason for excluding Flash is that it puts a third party between Apple and software developers. That means developers can take advantage of improvements from Apple only if Adobe chose to upgrade its own software, Jobs wrote.

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DrDoom at 6:44am 3rd June 2010 Steve needs to stop playing mummy, and let the children play.
Adam Goodrich at 3:04pm 27th May 2010 He may well be correct on all of the points he makes. But its our choice to run with it or not, and Apple is denying us those choices.

I love the iPhone, and am sure I will be impressed with the iPad, but have to say that the protectionist rhetoric coming from Apple leaves me cold and really turns me off wanting to develop for these platforms.

Enabling flash would enable a whole world of cool content to take advantage of an already awesome piece of kit.