Shortly after the iPad announcement, Apple CEO Steve Jobs held a townhall with his employees as he does after many of the big product releases. He addressed Adobe, Flash, Android and many other hot topics. I’ll skip past all the background to Jobs eye-opening spear aimed at Google.
This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bulls***.”
Here are a few other interesting quotes from the meeting attributed to Jobs.
About Adobe:
They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
On Google:
We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says.
Read the whole article over at Wired.com
