Report: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple
Adobe is said to be preparing to launch a lawsuit against Apple.
Unless you've been away on a nice long holiday since January and somehow missed the entire iPad/Flash/Steve Jobs/Adobe saga then you'll know there's a little bit of bad butter between Apple and Adobe.
In a nutshell, Steve says Flash is rubbish and the main reason Macs crash; Adobe says it's ready to work with Apple on bringing Flash to the iPad and the iPhone but Apple doesn't want to cooperate. The most recent development saw Apple change its iPhone SDK license agreement. iPhone 4.0 developers can only use Apple's certified tools, meaning the upcoming Flash CS5 software that will compile iPhone-compatible apps is pretty much a no-go.
Understandably, Adobe is a little annoyed by the whole situation. According to ITWorld, the company is seriously considering take Apple to court over the issue. While ITWorld admits that officially, the company isn't talking about anything of the sort, they cite sources close to the company that say Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.
Stay tuned for more on this one. Something tells us it's going to drag on for a long, long time.
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Boy that lawsuit wud b d mother of all ...
*grabs popcorn*
Adobe vs Apple, all we need now is Intel v Microsoft, and then the major final Intel v Apple for the world championship!
Oh shit, this is like watching a pedophile fight a rapist. I want both to lose >:
Flash is kinda bad, I can understand Steve J. When I watch an HD movie in flash my CPU goes to 40-50% but with HTML5 it only goes to 10% or less.Also all Flash based applications have poor frame rates on lower end PCs. I hope Adobe lose and HTML5 will be the real winner.
I'd like to see apple have a kick up the backside.
Apple control everything, and i'm sure a lot of their users would like to have flash. However Steve will throw all his toys out of the cot if he loses a bit of control now won't he?
I pray that Adobe stop making Photoshop and InDesign MAC-compatible.
Then Apple would only "own" people using; FinalCut Pro, Logic etc.
Let them burn I say!
Oh very true... That'd destroy them
I don't understand why Adobe is running scared. How useful would a mac be if you couldn't use photoshop, indesign or after effects? An enormous percentage of iMac users do multimedia stuff. Can you imagine if they cut their entire product line from OSX? Dreamweaver, acrobat professional, illustrator... It would destroy them.
Adobe would also lose a lot of money though...
I blame accountants. If both companies worried more about what their customers want rather than their share prices this wouldn't be happening.
Adobe vs Apple, all we need now is Intel v Microsoft, and then the major final Intel v Apple for the world championship!
Who will make the playoffs..
Flash is kinda bad, I can understand Steve J. When I watch an HD movie in flash my CPU goes to 40-50% but with HTML5 it only goes to 10% or less.Also all Flash based applications have poor frame rates on lower end PCs. I hope Adobe lose and HTML5 will be the real winner.
First off, I have a 2.23Ghz dual core Intel Centrino in my laptop, integrated graphics and 3.5GB registered memory (4GB but it all can't be read by 32-bit OS + shared memory for integrated) and I NEVER had a problem with any Flash game/movie while running multiple background programs. So I refuse to believe your first statement.
Secondly, you practically flaunt your total ignorance by even THINKING that Adobe will loose to HTML5 any day soon. While I do wish someone else to take a piece of the Flash pie, Adobe Flash runs on about 90%+ of all internet websites. That, is a lot. So please, don't say such idiotic things and actually look things up before you just spew out chronic, verbal, diarrhea.
Anyway, that aside. I am unsure who to choose, as much as I would absolutely love Steve Jobs to loose a heavy amount of cash any day, I'm not too sure how much I'd love to see it going to Adobe. Although I guess I'll take Adobe over Apple any day so I guess I (partly) hope Adobe will manage to ransack Apple's wallet and for once, force the sith lord to bend over and be the one that's taking it up the butt, not someone else.