San Jose Adult Entertainment: Jobs Mixes It Up With Adobe, Google
Jobs says Google wants to kill the iPhone with its new Nexus One smartphone and the Android OS. Jobs is reportedly upset because Google got into the smartphone business even though Apple doesn’t do search. Jobs called Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) lazy because it refuses to address bugs in its Flash media player — the reason, Jobs says, that Apple won’t support Flash for the iPhone and the new iPad. Besides, he added, the non-proprietary HTML5 format is the new new thing, so Flash’s days are numbered anyway.
The Politics of Ranting
Apple wasn’t the only company engaging in some netroots-based manueuvering recently. The Flash Blog — run by an Adobe employee not authorized to speak on behalf of the company — worked up some faux screen shots of what popular Web sites would look like on an iPad. Each image included copious white space where video should be — the result, of course, of a lack of Flash support. However, one of the Web sites was that of an adult entertainment company. Was Adobe playing the porn card, as Apple’s response implied?