Apple’s CEO took it upon himself to lead the huddled masses of ‘old media’ through the perceived revenue desert of the web and into the promised land of increased revenue and ultimately, more wealth for aging media barons. To achieve this, first up on Jobs’ hit list was Adobe’s Flash software, but it seems two media firms, Time Warner and NBC Universal, are revolting against Apple’s dear leader’s vision.
In an embarrassing public spat with Adobe, Jobs seemingly lost any grip on reality he may have had after resorting to just about any excuse he could think of to justify banning Adobe’s Flash on Iphone OS devices, which include the Iphone and the Ipad.
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Apparently the two entertainment industry giants told Apple that retooling themselves to support the Ipad would be “expensive and not worth it” citing the popularity of Flash on the web. The studios might, for once, have the support of those web users that have yet to be indoctrinated into Jobs’ cult.Things are looking increasingly desperate for the fruit themed toymaker, as one executive told The New York Post that media firms are not happy at Jobs’ dictatorial style and that Google TV will further diminish any bargaining power Jobs might have.
In other Apple news, Japan and Europe are going nuts over the iPad.
Steve needs to go to a spa and have his ego shrunk a few sizes.
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If Job’s iTunes success is any indication, it will be Apple forcing Hollywood to use iPad/iPhone friendly Flash alternatives.
And honestly, I’d prefer it that way! I can’t stand Flash!
We know it is going to sway Apple because NBC is always right–Baa ha ha ha ha ha ba ha ha ha ha ha
I have always thought that the war against flash was really a war about embedding ads in video, something that flash is supposedly very good at. The problem is that Apple wants to make money off of all ads on their future platform, that can not be done if they allow flash to insert ads.
And yes, Steve would have banned the browser if he thought he could get away with it. He wants total control and refuses convention. This is still evident by the Apple mouse. He is too blinded to realize that MS perfected the mouse decades ago. Every Mac I have had since they went USB has had a Microsoft mouse.
but the main one is—when should the government “step in” and require uniform standards TO THE BENEFIT OF all “us” end users? What service can get how large before it must use the Regulated Standard?
The application of this notion really gains traction when “the market” cannot/does not respond to profit skimming technologies by providing hacks. If the restricted item/service is legal, then a hack that breaks into it which may or may not void a warranty should also be legal.
In short, recognize where the majority interest is. Having a plethora of devices that cannot communicate to one another is not good for society.
Society: you and me.
Steve Jobs is the modern Henry Ford. He is a brilliant innovator and entrepreneur. But is stubborn and set in his ways and won’t accept anyone else’s ideas.
Ford’s attitude impeded the company for years, and while that was going on, GM surpassed them to become top dog for decades.
Stay (i)-tuned.
Steve Jobs is a real ego tripping CEO who makes decisions for his users as any good cult leader would.
When life gives you Apples, make Apple pie.
Apple doesn’t have to run Flash on its portable devices until Adobe finishes beta-testing Flash 10.x on Android.
Once Adobe gets it optimized enough that a Nexus 1 doesn’t have its battery-life cut in half, Apple can relent and let Flash onto its mobiles.
Of course, by then we’ll also have G4-class devices with sucky battery life, so Adobe needs to get Flash optimized – else G4+Flash devices will have 1/4 the battery life that G3-Flash devices have. 🙂
I don’t miss flash.
The web seems so much faster now.
Bwaaahahahaha “Things are looking increasingly desperate for the fruit themed toymaker…”
flash is garbage, who cares.
btw jobs has abc, disney, pixar, espn and marvel
Google is going to crush Apple.
Flash is a bug-filled, insecure, garbage wrapper.
Jobs is absolutely right to ban it.
I’m already using flash on my Nexus One. It works fine and doesn’t drain the battery. Steve Jobs will never dictate what I do with devices I purchase, because I will never buy Apple products. OK, may never is a little strong. Maybe Jobs will keel over and they’ll come to their senses, but I doubt it (the coming to their senses part, we know he won’t live forever).
I can’t even imagine using flash on a touch based interface, period. None of the roll overs would work correctly and you’d navigate to places you didn’t intend to.
Yes, this could be programmed to require a double tap or triple tap, but that’d require everyone with a flash interface to reprogram. Good luck to that.
Yup. Whine more, stick with DOS and the command line.
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I noticed that Netflix is using Silverlight. I assume that Jobs have Silverlight more than he hates Flash.
Or do people lump Silverlight and Flash together as the same thing?
$15 Sorry, are you talking about flash or quicktime/iTunes?
The iPad is a terrific media device. Not having Flash compatibility is the biggest problem with it.
No biggie. Apple won’t have to back down on their refusal to accommodate Flash.
The reason Hollywood prefers Flash over HTML5 is because Flash supports all the features they love (and that piss off users) like DRM copy protection, and unskippable advertisements.
Hollywood can achieve the same ends by offering a dedicated viewer app in the iTunes app store. I suspect that’s what they will eventually do.
Ah hates Flash video!
What strikes me is the fact that all the movie preview I’ve seen in the past 10 years were hosted by apple .. do they even need Flash? Not wanting to reprogram stuff is a pretty lame argument … Of course they like to provide user with a cheap and botched multimedia experience. I hate Flash since 1999 and I didn’t see it improve enough to change my mind.
Good Riddance.
Let’s seee…two old school media companies, Time Warner and NBC desperately trying to hold on to an old business model…let me know how that works out for you guys as your revenues continues to shrink. Stick with you old school business model while the rest of the world passes you by and you disappear into obsolescence. Doesn’t the numbers of people that are canceling their cable subscriptions and buying devices like the iPad give you ANY clue as to where things are heading?
Mr. Jobs is Hollywood, I recall that he is on Disney’s board? Which means that he represents the interests of Disney’s shareholders, unlike Apple’s (where as Apple’s CEO he is simply another employee working for a salary).
Jobs doesn’t need them. Uh HELLO, Apple is #1 in the mobile department. If those media firms don’t want access to that group, then screw them, see who comes out on top. They think they run the market? Hell no.
I will say it’s a bit early though to ban Flash. HTML5 is still in its drafting stages and won’t even saturate the market for a number more years.
Judging by the total ruin that iTunes is, without any intuitive interface and no drag and drop, I’ll never buy another Apple device. Amazing that one can’t drag music from the music folder into the iTunes folder or the iTouch, or one can’t drag songs from the desktop to the music folder. Try file management on an iTouch or iPad and you’ll go nuts if you’re used to Windows. What a total POS.
Not only that, but on Vista, iTunes keeps forgetting how to run the DVD drive, so reinstalling Gear software and doing a registry edit is mandatory all the time. Lordy! I can’t believe they’ve never fixed it, judging from the number of users that have griped on Apple’s forums. Guess they don’t care or they’re just stupid and don’t know how to fix it. Duh, it, uh, duh, runs on the Mac, uh, duh…
If Jobs thinks he has a better idea, he’s got another think coming. I wonder if the Mac computer software / OS is as crummy as iTunes. Geez, I don’t really care since I’ll never buy an overpriced closed system, ever. Keep it, Jobs. I don’t want it.