The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 4, 2010

“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 — with rumours of plans to deploy a
range of WebOS tablets to rival the iPad — 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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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