Steve Jobs pens open letter about Flash

constrict wrote in post #10174766
I uninstalled Quicktime and couldn't view any videos on apple.com.

Did you download them, or did you try to open them in your browser? If the former, then you need some app that recognizes .mov and .m4v containers and h.264 and AAC codecs. If the latter, you need to tell your browser how to handle .mov and .m4v files.

Adobe's response:

http://www.adobe.com/c​hoice/openmarkets.html

Adobe is starting to look really desperate if you ask me.

Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us

http://digitaldaily.al​lthingsd.com …?reflink=ATD_ya​hoo_ticker

Todd Lambert wrote in post #10179566
Adobe is starting to look really desperate if you ask me.

i think adobe's piece is just as full of misinformation as apple's.

however.. i guess some could argue that it's well-written, to the point, and leaves no doubts what adobe's prerogative is.

alt4852 wrote in post #10179645
i think adobe's piece is just as full of misinformation as apple's.

however.. i guess some could argue that it's well-written, to the point, and leaves no doubts what adobe's prerogative is.

And both Apple and Adobe's stock is up from last year... doesn't look like either company is hurting too bad.

Kiwikat wrote in post #10133888
You really think Apple is innovating?

Yes I do, its called ILife. Please try and duplicate this on the PC for $80us.

Todd Lambert wrote in post #10179566
Adobe is starting to look really desperate if you ask me.

I agree. After I read their response I though gee I could do better than that. It came across weak and self serving. Where as Jobs at least made it sound like it was for the user.

I love Adobe... I use Flash, PDF's and Photoshop CS4 practically every day... Adobe has contributed much more to photography than Apple so they get my respect.

iPad review by Steve Balmer

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=cRcTYgEx3mI

MMX wrote in post #10190866
iPad review by Steve Balmer

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=cRcTYgEx3mI

Hammer meet nail. (:lol

I learned probably everything I'll ever want to know about the Apple "experience" the other night as I tried to help my friend recover his music library from his iPod. After a few hours of wrangling with inconsistent instructions online and dodging dozens of shareware programs specifically made for this purpose (!), we finally got his music back on his computer through some arcane series of mantras at the Holy iTunes Temple. I had no idea the iPod was designed as a one-way transaction, and it makes no sense. Zero. Don't even try to justify it. I don't know how people tolerate this with music and devices they've paid good money for.

At the end of this fiasco all I could think was... I could have hooked up one of my "inferior" iriver/SanDisk/Rockbox​'d players as a vanilla MSC device and copied over my music seven hundred times by now using basic file operations.

"Open," my ass.

Mike Deep wrote in post #10198189
I had no idea the iPod was designed as a one-way transaction, and it makes no sense. Zero. Don't even try to justify it.

Your complaints are with the RIAA, not Apple. They are who insisted that iPods be one-direction devices from an "authorized computer". Part of that lovely DRM crap.

Let's face it the isheep would believe black is white if Steve Jobs told them so.

blackshadow wrote in post #10201074
Let's face it the isheep would believe black is white if Steve Jobs told them so.

That has nothing to do with the fact that Flash is junk and needs to die ASAP. The alternative is they will fix it, but Adobe has shown that it's not interested in that. I guess they should have kept their Macromedia programmers after they bought the company and ruined it.