Jobs and Flash: Eternal Wrath?

Apple's demigod Steve Jobs made additional, not necessarily convincing, allegations against Adobe's graphics device. Jobs has long criticized the company for saying that Adobe’s lousy software doesn’t fit the iPhone.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, he said the Adobe Flash video player uses too much CPU. Of course, it couldn’t stop there: Apple isn’t wasting time on outdated technologies that are full of vulnerabilities. He compared Flash to floppy drives among other legacy technologies.

We’ve learned that if we used Flash on the iPad, the battery life would be reduced from 10 hours to just an hour and a half. Let's just say this may be true. Most iPad buyers wouldn’t get anything but a chilly-wild look and would lose a lot of uptime.

Jobs says using the CPU for something that isn’t even considered important by smartphone owners is completely unnecessary. Of the few million visits to Adobe’s site from an iPhone, he obviously knows nothing, and it couldn’t be resolved that whoever doesn’t need to simply turn off the service. We will probably never understand the decision of the big company and we can still hope for the ridiculous impossibility.