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What on Earth is up with Adobe?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

We’ve all heard the stories about how Toyota is having problems with everything right now, and have even paused production of many of their top-selling models while they sort out the problem (and presumably so they don’t have to go back and fix a load of cars they just built, as well as not producing a load of cars that nobody will buy because of perceived problems).

But in a recent article, The Register (UK IT News with a light-hearted slant, and one of my favourite sites) were reporting on the latest ‘news’ from the world of Adobe, about a serious security flaw in the Adobe Download Manager. They made the comment that this problem and others in recent times “have made Adobe the Toyota of the software industry”.

Initially, this made me laugh, but only because it is so true!

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So what about Flash?

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

There is a debate going on at the moment about Flash. This is a debate that has only really started heating up since Apple announced the iPad and stated that neither it nor the iPhone (and iPod Touch) would be running Flash any time soon.

Adobe countered this very public dismissal of their software by saying that Apple would be denying users of the iPhone/iPad the ability to view ‘most of’ the internet.

I can understand why Adobe would be put out by Apple’s refusal to support their technology, on the back of which they sell their own products, and I can also understand why Apple does not want to support Flash on the iPhone OS (for want of a better name – what else should we call it, MacOS Mobile?).

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