http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/adobe-flash-jobs/
Ex-Adobe engineers: We raised red flags that went unheeded; Adobe closed mobile department in 07
Sunday, May 02, 2010
"In an open letter published Thursday, Steve Jobs outlined a half dozen reasons why Apple is not supporting Flash on its mobile platform," Brian X. Chen reports for Wired.
"Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh, former Adobe mobile engineers, said they were raising flags at Adobe in 2007 about the same complaints that Jobs detailed Thursday," Chen reports. "'Walter and I, being the lead architects for Flash Lite, we were seeing the iPhone touch devices coming out, and we kept saying 'Hey, this is coming along,'' Icaza said in a phone interview. 'You have this white elephant that everybody ignored. Half the [Adobe] mobile business unit was carrying iPhones, and yet the management team wasnt doing anything about it.'"
Chen reports, "They said they left Adobe because executives did not take the iPhone seriously when Apple announced the touchscreen device in 2007. Instead, Adobe focused on feature phones (cellphones with lightweight web features, not smartphones) and invested in development of Flash Lite to play Flash videos on such devices. Subsequently, Adobe shut down the mobile business unit in 2007, and has suffered from a brain drain in the mobility space ever since, Icaza and Luh said."
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Although I love to slag on Adobe and other tech outfits that never seem to learn, I posted this because it's actually an interesting piece. It reminds me of the internal e-mails (which went largely ignored) between Allchin and Microsoft execs many moons ago.
Ex-Adobe engineers: We raised red flags that went unheeded; Adobe closed mobile department in 07
Sunday, May 02, 2010
"In an open letter published Thursday, Steve Jobs outlined a half dozen reasons why Apple is not supporting Flash on its mobile platform," Brian X. Chen reports for Wired.
"Carlos Icaza and Walter Luh, former Adobe mobile engineers, said they were raising flags at Adobe in 2007 about the same complaints that Jobs detailed Thursday," Chen reports. "'Walter and I, being the lead architects for Flash Lite, we were seeing the iPhone touch devices coming out, and we kept saying 'Hey, this is coming along,'' Icaza said in a phone interview. 'You have this white elephant that everybody ignored. Half the [Adobe] mobile business unit was carrying iPhones, and yet the management team wasnt doing anything about it.'"
Chen reports, "They said they left Adobe because executives did not take the iPhone seriously when Apple announced the touchscreen device in 2007. Instead, Adobe focused on feature phones (cellphones with lightweight web features, not smartphones) and invested in development of Flash Lite to play Flash videos on such devices. Subsequently, Adobe shut down the mobile business unit in 2007, and has suffered from a brain drain in the mobility space ever since, Icaza and Luh said."
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Although I love to slag on Adobe and other tech outfits that never seem to learn, I posted this because it's actually an interesting piece. It reminds me of the internal e-mails (which went largely ignored) between Allchin and Microsoft execs many moons ago.
