The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

"There has been some ... interesting news from the tech sector this week.

"Firstly, the Apple vs. Adobe vendetta gets even nastier, with a public letter from Steve Jobs explaining why Adobe's Flash multimedia format will not ever be allowed into the garden of pure ideology that is the iPhone/iPad fork of OSX.

"Secondly, Hewlett-Packard are buying Palm, apparently for Palm's WebOS â€" with rumours of plans to deploy a range of WebOS tablets to rival the iPad â€" at the same time, they're killing their forthcoming Windows 7 slate, just as Microsoft are killing the Courier tablet project.

"Finally, gizmodo (not, perhaps, an unbiased source in this regard given current events) have a fun essay discussing Apple's Worldwide Loyalty Team, the internal unit tasked with hunting down and stopping leaks."

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