Apple’s town hall meeting reportedly happened yesterday, and Jobs had some choice words to say about the competition. Wired is reporting that the two major topics of conversation were Google and Adobe. According to Wired’s anonymous sources:
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. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.”
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.
MacRumors also had an anonymous tipster, who offered them some additional information.
- Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won’t be able to keep up with
- iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of
- Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team
- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update
- New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.
As always anonymous sources, take this information as rumor only, as we have no confirmation of its truth.
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i don’t believe this iphone stuff. I can’t. Aggressive updates? c’mon there’s been one real update since the last software launch and a new one probably won’t happen until the next generation of the device. when you combine the disappointment of the iPad and this, i’m really upset with apple.
good statement. Sounds about right.
I have had every version of the iphone. Its fantastic and it just keeps improving
its not just the iPhone. when you have a MacBook the interconnectivity between the two is great. I find your limitation is usually you. I have carefully chosen the work flow and setup I use more iPhone for.
I agree with Nick. It’s taken a long time for the ‘shine’ to wear off for me and now I’m seeing more of what I can’t do with the iPhone ..than what I can.
Steve, Flash isn’t for YOU. It’s for US. Get it ? Build your little bug catcher connector that interfaces with that oh-so-buggy software and then let us have it. Report onscreen when it crashes because it’s buggy … we the we-the-consumer can push adobe’s buttons.
Until then – you come across as constipated man.
Well, in not so definitive terms, I agree with Mr. Jobs on a couple of points. 1) Adobe Flash can be buggy, depending on whatever flash object is being used. I can understand the desire to have support for it (native YouTube support and such), but I still don’t think it’s a end-all-be-all requirement for a phone (or pad or whatever). I do hope we all move to a real standard, and not just something that becomes standard by default market penetration (this is the whole reason Microsoft continues to be relevant).
2) I honestly don’t believe that the “don’t be evil” mantra is the sole guiding force of Google. They want to make money. They have shareholders to answer to. Can they try to not be as evil as others? Sure, but I think as a “mantra,” this is pretty much just PR.
Anyway, just my thoughts. Not really even worth 2 cents.
About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it.
Like what, releasing a new device missing so many things (software)they know they could have included but will leave that up to App writers(which they get 30% of someone else’s hard work) or the next update(hardware with a camera for example to ichat) in exactly one year so you will buy another. It’s a win win for Jobs.
About Apple: They are greedy, I say.