Jobs Shunned Flash During WSJ Meeting
- February 19th, 2010 - 11.00 am BST
- Apple Rumour, iPad
- Alex Brooks
Steve Jobs uses iPad during unveiling keynote. Apple iPad Event by mattbuchanan, on Flickr
Rumours suggest that when Apple CEO Steve Jobs met with Wall Street Journal editors to show off the iPad the subject quickly turned to Adobe Flash and the lack of compatibility.
The details published by Valleywag say that during the meeting Jobs defended Apple’s decisions by calling Flash “a CPU hog” and is full of “security holes” adding that Apple doesn’t “spend a lot of energy on old technology.”
Jobs who has a history of abandoning technologies is also rumoured to have said that playing videos in Flash would reduce the iPads battery from 10 hours to 1.5 hours recommending that the WSJ abandon Flash in a “trivial” move and adopt H.264.
Comments
Tom 19th February 2010, 14.51 pm
You’d think they could get Jobs some nicer shoes to wear on stage.
Alex Brooks 20th February 2010, 13.33 pm
But he only gets paid $1 per annum…
Ian 21st February 2010, 19.54 pm
…. Jobs is sounding like Betamax man. Flash may be bad but not helping them to make it better isn’t going to improve our web experience. ‘All the Internet’ does not mean replacing flash content with a little blue Lego block Steve!!
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