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Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ
Hugh Pickens writes "Businessweek reports that Adobe has taken out newspaper advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times today and posted an open letter to call out the tablet-computer maker for stifling competition. 'We believe that consumers should be able to freely access their favorite content and applications, regardless of what computer they have, what browser they like, or what device suits their needs,' the letter states. 'No company — no matter how big or how creative — should dictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can experience on the web.' The letter is part of a widening rift between Apple and Adobe. Two weeks ago, Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs wrote a 29-paragraph public missive panning Adobe's Flash as having 'major technical drawbacks.' US antitrust enforcers also may investigate Apple following a complaint from Adobe, people familiar with the matter said this month. Adobe has also launched a banner ad campaign to let you know that they love Apple. The two-piece banner ads are composed of a 720x90-pixel 'We [heart] Apple' design, followed by a 300x250-pixel medium rectangle that reads: 'What we don't love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the web.'"
It done been brought!
Living With a Nerd
Whoops. Looks like I shouldn't have included Solaris. Sorry.
I don't need a million points of light, just two points of multi-mode fiber and a 10 Gig-E router.
Piss off adobe and you may end up needing to do some real jail breaking.
Don't discount the entertainment value of that for us end-users.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Adobe: We Bitch and Moan until we Get Our Way(TM)
Yes, but we do it very, very slowly. Pegging processor cores and making browsers run like shit along the way.
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Another fucktard who got modded up for being clueless.
If one strace's the chrome flash plugin process one discovers that in 10 seconds it issues 56,000 system calls -- 53,000 (95%) of them are useless gettimeofday() calls
Per my co-worker: That's probably why flash sucks so bad on MacOS. Apple won't give them the time of day!
Yeah, I forgot about all the flash applications I download through Xbox and Zune Marketplace.
Oh wait.
Just use the Gimp.