Comments on: Adobe CEO: ‘There’s a War Happening for Developers’

By: Adobe Says Air And Flash Are Winning Over Developers: Tech News and Analysis «

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:07:46 +0000

[...] has acknowledged that there’s a war going on for developers, and it believes it has some increasingly popular weapons to win the hearts of mobile developers in [...]

By: Chanin

Chanin — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:35:10 +0000

Don’t be serious! No one dead if you product is good enough or no other choices to select. Like CDG,IBM,Microsoft, etc. Why don’t we keep our reputation to use as marketing tool to provide a new great tools for HTML5 together with our possess tools. Um.. Can we go together with Apple and others? Whether we want to play “High Risk, High Return”.

By: Sean OBrien

Sean OBrien — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:41:17 +0000

Here’s an idea for an assignment for these new developers. They could write a new version of Flash which doesn’t crash or burn up the battery, or consume resources….etc. They could write a version so excellent that Apple would be forced to allow it in iOS.

By: Developers: Adobe wants you for a new recruit | 9 to 5 Mac Developers: Adobe wants you for a new recruit | Apple Intelligence

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:05:15 +0000

[...] In a separate report the Adobe boss attempts to characterize proprietary Adobe as open, in comparison to Apple. [...]

By: Maclord

Maclord — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:34:21 +0000

Ah, Adobe, why don’t you stop just for once, and think. Rethink your Flash, stop making it a complicated, Windows-like buggy operating system, which overheats devices and crashes them. Improve Flash to be simpler, unbuggy, and see to it that it does not overheat the devices it runs on like cookers. And then watch if Apple supports it or not. If there is a war, Adobe, its because of your ignorance, laziness and stupidity for all these years for making running-OK-only-on-Windows products…

By: andrei.timoshenko

andrei.timoshenko — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:29:18 +0000

If “Apple would like to create a closed and proprietary system, for developers to make applications that only work on ‘i’ devices, and continue to just operate on ‘i’ devices”, then Adobe would like to create a closed and proprietary system, for developers to make applications that only work if created with Adobe’s tools and used on devices with Adobe’s plugins.

The difference is that Apple is quite happy to let its platform compete against other platforms, while Adobe wants its meta-platform to be the ‘one platform to rule them all’ by rendering the underlying platforms (Android, iOS/OSX, Windows, WebOS, RIM, etc.) irrelevant. Competition is a good thing that drives progress forward. I would much rather a somewhat fragmented world with 3-4 major platforms competing with one another (much like the current console market say, or even like most developed countries’ political systems) than having one single monoculture standard.

There is a trade-off between competition and fragmentation, of course, but the more complex the platform/standard, the greater the need for there to be ‘more than one’ of them.

By: John Christian

John Christian — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 06:36:05 +0000

Santanu Narayen is absolutely right. His comment is quite profound “that it is all about tools”… I wont be surprised if adobe photshop or dreamweaver also establishes themselves as the best ever HTML5 editor on this planet. Thanks for your insight Mr Narayen.

By: fjpoblam

fjpoblam — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:36:16 +0000

They’re BOTH proprietary. Yes, it’s about what the customer wants to do. “Do” meaning, what the customer wants to “pay for.” Wanna give yer bucks to Adobe, or wanna give yer bucks to Apple?

I think I can deduce where Adobe would rather I’d send my bucks. (And I think I can deduce where Apple would rather I’d send my bucks.) There’s no open and inclusive solution on either side. What schmucks.

By: zato

zato — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:37:55 +0000

More BS from Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Will it ever end?
Can anyone answer this question: How did this guy get to be CEO of Asobe? Did Microsoft have anything to do with it?

By: Carmen Hughes

Carmen Hughes — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:46:42 +0000

I totally agree with Mike Bass’ comment below. Adobe is duplicitous in its attempt to present itself ‘non-proprietary.’