What does it mean when a popular product does not come installed on Apple’s flagship notebook and will not be auto-updated on any Apple products? It means Flash is still in the Steve Jobs doghouse.
Apple is a company with $51 billion in the bank and that often means that it’s time to look around for something shiny to buy. In this case, rumors on the street think that Apple finds Sony shiny indeed.
Here’s a desktop publishing and graphical editing solution that does animation and runs both on your Mac and in the cloud. Moreover, because it runs in Adobe’s middleware Air environment, this bit o’ everything consumer publishing product can go anywhere you do.
The brouhaha over the fact that Apple’s new MacBook Air doesn’t include Adobe Flash? There’s no controversy here at all as the mothership has decided, just like it has with Java, not to install the software at the factory.
At first blush, and given the recent enmity between Steve Jobs and certain people at Adobe, it seems ludicrous to suggest that Apple buy Adobe. But there are some pretty good points in favor of such a deal.
You’ve visited a steaming pile of Flash masquerading as a website and, what d’ya know, you find yourself starring at the infamous beach ball of death. Well, you could force quit Safari, wait for it to crash by itself or, with the help of this nifty tutorial, just kill Flash, leaving Safari right where you were.
Even though almost all of us think of the iPad as a totally new breed of computer, there is still a question in a lot of minds as to whether or not the iPad is taking sales away from the Mac lineup.
Gaming performance issues introduced with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.4 have been fixed and then some. Moreover, those eager beavers (and beaverettes) at Valve are pushing Apple to keep raising their operating system game.
The vicissitudes of the company’s war with Apple over Mobile Flash aside, Adobe is still one of the biggest independent software vendors (ISV) on the fairer platform. Moreover, piczilla competes head-to-head with the mothership (i.e. Aperture) in the professional photography space and that’s good for everyone.
Unlike other recent Flash and Acrobat security red flags, this one’s actually been spotted in the wild, though its use isn’t yet widespread. However, as with previous exploits, such as the Dempsky vulnerability, this one affects the currently shipping version of Flash, but not current betas.
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