Them´s Fightin´Words: Jobs Lashes Out at Google and Adobe

Monday, February 1, 2010

images In the weeks leading up to the iPad release, it seemed as though most tech sites had simply become rumor mills. Well, it appears as though that is to continue for some time. Wired Magazine has reported that Steve Jobs went on a bit of a profane rant regarding Adobe and Google.

images2 Following the unveiling of the iPad and the rumors that preceded it, the day after its coming out party, the media seemed to focus on all that was wrong with the device. These included the lack of a forward facing camera for videoconferencing, the lack of a new OS for both the iPad and the iPhone, and that the iTab will not have Flash support.

It is perhaps for this reason that Jobs was reported to have said, about Adobe, in a town hall style meeting with Apple employees last week:

“They are Lazy”
“Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash.”
“No one will be using Flash, the world is moving to to HTML5“

HTML5 may well be the future, but it is a ways off to this date, though it was cannily used to produce the Google Voice mobile site in their own announcement release last week.

While I´ve chosen to add quotation marks to these remarks it seems unlikely that there will ever be any official verification of Mr. Jobs´statements. And it was for Google that he seems to have reserved the bulk of his vitriol last week.

And rightfully so, it´s not paranoia if people are truly out to get you. And the early January release of Google´s Nexus One “Superphone” was no less than a shot across Apple´s bow.

What was said? How about: