Adobe might continue to crow about Flash and its importance on both the desktop and mobile devices, but there’s no lying to investors, and the company is pretty blunt about the threat of the iPhone and iPad in the end-of-quarter Form 10-Q it just filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission: it flatly says that ‘to the extent new releases of operating systems or other third-party products, platforms or devices, such as the Apple iPhone or iPad, make it more difficult for our products to perform, and our customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies, our business could be harmed.’
I wonder how Adobe will try to adapt to the potential for Flash to be a real sinking ship.
That Jobs. One shrewd guy. Unlike Microsoft, always trying to be liked, to morph into something they are not good at, or slavishly accommodating systems and concepts and aspirations outside their own ability to create, Apple just declares: history is bunk. Let them eat Flash.