Adobe: Jobs Don't Know His iPhone
Adobe pokes fun at Steve Jobs' comment that Flash can't run on the iPhone.
Thanks to Steve Jobs claiming that Flash ran too slowly to be usable on the iPhone last spring, Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and senior VP Johnny Loiacono is now mocking the situation with a short but comical Mythbusters-type video skit here on YouTube.
Called Myth Hackers, the flashy dynamic duo address a myth sent in from Steve in Cupertino claiming, "it's not possible to run Flash on the iPhone." The two proceed to show the devices that actually can run Flash... thirty-seven in fact, including a super-old analog TV with a connected set-top box.
The video hosts also demonstrated that Flash couldn't perform on an old rotary phone, and of course, Apple's iPhone.
Doug Winnie, Adobe's product manager, entered the set and said that he can get Flash to run on anything, from desktops to browsers to boats and airplanes. "But, I can't get it to run on an iPhone," he said, looking at his co-hosts with a frustrated, confused expression. "Why is that?"
Tossing the device down on the table, he throws his hands up in the air and storms off the set," saying "forget it, I'm outta here!"
Loiacono and Lynch thus began their highly-controlled experiments, combining the iPhone and a Flash-based CD in a blender, shocking the device with a car battery (seemingly needing more juice), consulting a ninja, blowing up the device with dynamite, and even "embedding Flash" using a steamroller.
Eventually the myth was proved hacked, as Adobe now has Flash-based Apps available on the Apps Store, and they run rather well. What's the message here? Steve in Cupertino doesn't know his iPhone.
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Well Well Well...... Mr Jobs.......Someone needs to actually speak to someones engineers about said capabilities of said phone.
Anyone notice the apple logo looks a lot like the woolworths logo??? Perhaps woolworths should sue....
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Well if Adobe can get Flash to run "great" on an iPhone, then how come it runs like a steaming pile of crap on Mac OSX? Maybe Adobe should apply some of the same Myth Hacking techniques to solve this long-standing problem and then worry about the iPhone.
My favourite part is about 1 & 1/2 minutes in. iPhone Meets blender.
Want to get a nutritious drink when you're on the go?
With the iSmoothie, there's an app for that...
Well, I look forward to seeing the mythhackers debunking the rumour that this piece-o'crap won't run Crysis.
A resource hogging advertisement platform, Flash needs to be banned from the net.
LOL!! Go Adobe!!
A resource hogging advertisement platform, Flash needs to be banned from the net.
uhm.. maybe 10 years ago buddy.
Its not needed....
The last thing we need on portable phones are added software that will require additional resources....
Flash still runs like crap on everything. CPU utilization for the simplistic things it does is just horrible. Even on a fast quad core.
chances are flash would run faster on the iphone than it would on a pc, cause on a pc its software rendered, on the iphone they would hardware render it.
The only reason they don't want it is because then you could access FREE apps (games) on your device WITHOUT GOING THOUGH THE APP STORE :0
And Steve Job's vision of world domination would be hindered.
doesnt suprise me steve job is as stupid as the rest of the mac "snobs"
(not all mac users are snobs...just most)
Now that they've got it to run on the iPhone, maybe they can make it run on PCs.
(And then, Adobe can make PDF Reader run too...)
Everyone including Steve Jobs knows/knew the iPhone was capable of running Flash. This article sucked.
Its not needed....The last thing we need on portable phones are added software that will require additional resources....
And if you want to use video sites like Youtube or others you need Flash which sems to be on every site these days..........
Well if Adobe can get Flash to run "great" on an iPhone, then how come it runs like a steaming pile of crap on Mac OSX? Maybe Adobe should apply some of the same Myth Hacking techniques to solve this long-standing problem and then worry about the iPhone.
They can only patch and optimize their stuff to work on one broken Mac OS at a time. They just don't have the resources for anything further.
Flash does run on the iPhone if it's implemented to run it.
It's just saved as a super mega iphone v15 feature.
That was the best video I ever read.
Well if Adobe can get Flash to run "great" on an iPhone, then how come it runs like a steaming pile of crap on Mac OSX? Maybe Adobe should apply some of the same Myth Hacking techniques to solve this long-standing problem and then worry about the iPhone.
But I thought Macs 'Just work'?
Funny Sh*t.
Well whaddya know, a sense of humour. That just made my view of Adobe a little bit more positive.
There's something to be learnt here, Steve in Cupertino...
Let's look at iphone 3GS's biggest rival, HTC Hero, which runs flash. Not surprisingly, it sucked on there, just like in every other mobile devices. I've never been a fan of flash, and I personally try to avoid any flash heavy website. Because they kick up my laptop's fan for no good reason, and is mostly unresponsive. Flash needs to die or seriously improve on performance. Hopefully GPU utilization would help this situation.
Adobe have better engineers than Apple!
Hahaha!
The problem is Apples doesn't want anything on their systems/devices that wasn't written by Apple. Heaven forbid someone trying to make a buck by writing an application to run on an Apple device...
Why did they have to blow it up with dynamite when dropping it would have the same effect?
Well if Adobe can get Flash to run "great" on an iPhone, then how come it runs like a steaming pile of crap on Mac OSX? Maybe Adobe should apply some of the same Myth Hacking techniques to solve this long-standing problem and then worry about the iPhone.
There are more iPhone users than Mac OSX users. Bigger customer base.
But I thought Macs 'Just work'?
Funny thing is, I have never seen actually seen one "Just Work"
Flash is overrated.
Flash is overrated.
So is anything Apple related.
My windows mobile phone runs flash just fine =)