Adobe swings back at Apple

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Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders







If you're reading Engadget today (and let's be honest, you're reading it right now), then you might have noticed that Adobe has launched a pretty full-force campaign to call out Apple on its anti-Flash mission. If you don't know what we're talking about, it's the advertisements that start with "We [heart] Apple." Along with the web ads, the company has also snagged a full page in today's Washington Post to address the battle in which the two companies have been engaged. All of this links back to a new statement from Adobe, as well as an open letter from founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock ("Our thoughts on open markets"), addressing Apple's recent spate of clear and direct attacks against the company and its products. Most of the reading should sound familiar to those of us who've been following the saga, but here are a few choice quotes from the duo:
We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs. No company - no matter how big or how creative - should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web.

When markets are open, anyone with a great idea has a chance to drive innovation and find new customers. Adobe's business philosophy is based on a premise that, in an open market, the best products will win in the end - and the best way to compete is to create the best technology and innovate faster than your competitors.

We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web - the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.

In the end, we believe the question is really this: Who controls the World Wide Web? And we believe the answer is: nobody - and everybody, but certainly not a single company.
So, it's clear this issue isn't going to die out any time soon, and it's also clear that Adobe is going to go to great lengths to defend and protect its cash-cow. Of course, if they really want this message to hit home to the core iPad and iPhone users out there, they're going to need to run that ad in HTML5.


http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/13/adob ... ishes-ope/



Apple jus want to fight everybody....Its great technical wars goin on here...keepin in mind they fightin Nokia, HTC, Kodak as well..

Is Steve Jobs turning into an arrogant bully in the public's eyes?

[EmpireKing]

Adobe is epic awesomeness!

[rodfarva]

the reason people love apple is BECAUSE it gives a more polished, finished looking and simplified product

excluding Flash, unfortunately is one of the things that helps them to do this. They exclude lots of compatibility because they want absolute quality control.
If you dont like it, buy Android.

side note: i may be turning into a fanboy

[MG Man]

[Kenjo]

the world just wont be the same without FLASH.Hope you Apple fan boys are happy

[Strauss]

the world just wont be the same without FLASH.Hope you Apple fan boys are happy

ROFLMAO !

[Midnight_Demon]

the world just wont be the same without FLASH.Hope you Apple fan boys are happy

ROFL! WIN!!!!!!!!

[buzz]

[christopherwilliams2]

the world just wont be the same without FLASH.Hope you Apple fan boys are happy

Kenjo yuh big inno... tek win!

[~Vēġó~]

intruiging...

[TriniVdub]

steve jobs is a kant...all the power and money he has now won't save him from the maggots that are awaiting his ass....well, unless he gets cremated of course

[M_2NR]

That's all folks, bye to floppy disks and soon bye to Flash.

[cenile indian]

the world just wont be the same without FLASH.Hope you Apple fan boys are happy

[VexXx Dogg]

That's all folks, bye to floppy disks and soon bye to Flash.

LOL, macs dont have enough market share to even shake a threatening finger at flash, far less to kill it.
Win* users alone make up over 80% of internet users according to W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Apple has some great technology, but the boss moving like manning.

[Stephon.]

[Strauss]

That's all folks, bye to floppy disks and soon bye to Flash.

LOL, macs dont have enough market share to even shake a threatening finger at flash, far less to kill it.
Win* users alone make up over 80% of internet users according to W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Apple has some great technology, but the boss moving like manning.

Although Apple lost market share web server wise, it's still ~50%
It's the 3rd largest smart phone maker and fastest growing in the mobile market which is where the argument is about.

Board of Directors include Bill Campbell, Al Gore, Andrea Jung. Plus Steve Jobs is not only on Walt Disney's board of directors, he is also the largest single shareholder.

All who complained about Apple abandoning the floppy disk, what do they have to say now? When Apple was pushing Wi-Fi in 1998 and people complained about the practicality, what now? When they made TrueType fonts for Windows... when they made the first commercial laser printer and people complained about expense... when they made optical mice standard... and was the first PC with a CD-ROM drive, and the first PC manufacturer to make USB standard in 1997, forsaking all others. When they said SSD was the way of the future. The first studio flat panel then others followed.

Where are those whiners now? PC folks have so much to thank Apple for, if only you realise how much Apple has influence the OS and hardware you are using now.

[TK!]

Although Apple lost market share web server wise, it's still ~50%

quote your source.

[VexXx Dogg]

That's all folks, bye to floppy disks and soon bye to Flash.

LOL, macs dont have enough market share to even shake a threatening finger at flash, far less to kill it.
Win* users alone make up over 80% of internet users according to W3Schools
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

Apple has some great technology, but the boss moving like manning.

Although Apple lost market share web server wise, it's still ~50%
It's the 3rd largest smart phone maker and fastest growing in the mobile market which is where the argument is about.

Board of Directors include Bill Campbell, Al Gore, Andrea Jung. Plus Steve Jobs is not only on Walt Disney's board of directors, he is also the largest single shareholder.

All who complained about Apple abandoning the floppy disk, what do they have to say now? When Apple was pushing Wi-Fi in 1998 and people complained about the practicality, what now? When they made TrueType fonts for Windows... when they made the first commercial laser printer and people complained about expense... when they made optical mice standard... and was the first PC with a CD-ROM drive, and the first PC manufacturer to make USB standard in 1997, forsaking all others. When they said SSD was the way of the future. The first studio flat panel then others followed.

Where are those whiners now? PC folks have so much to thank Apple for, if only you realise how much Apple has influence the OS and hardware you are using now.

I'm in the smallest minority.
CentOS Linux ftmfw.