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To: JP Sullivan who wrote (92236)	2/17/2010 11:32:27 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Respond to of 213176

I just had a major Safari crash today. I tried several restarts, but each time it would launch with a mess of tabs open that I never asked for, so I rebooted the Mac. Safari now works again but I checked the trash to look at any recovery files - several were Flash. Later I saw this article at: macrumors.com BoomTown today sat down with Adobe Chief Technical Officer Kevin Lynch to discuss the relationship between Apple and Adobe and the deployment of Flash on Mac as well as the iPhone and iPad. Apple's decision not to include Flash Player capabilities on the iPhone and now the iPad has resulted in apparent tensions between the two companies. Lynch's comments about Flash on the Mac indicate that the Adobe is working hard on CPU usage during video rendering, acknowledging that such tasks use more CPU cycles on the Mac than on Windows. Regarding the iPhone, Lynch defends the importance of Flash on the Web, noting that he is hopeful that the adoption of Flash capabilities on a number of smartphone platforms will help convince others such as Apple to follow suit. Well, there's a lot of Flash content on the Web, and so, right now about 85% of the top websites have Flash on their website. So if you want to view the whole Web, not having the ability to view Flash really is kind of limiting in terms of the experience on the devices, and so we're really focused on making sure that we can bring the ability to view Flash content and interact with it across all of these devices...I'm hopeful in the smartphone space, for example, that as people start to see that you can get a great experience with Flash in the smartphone, for example on Android, and Palm, and Nokia, and RIM, and these other devices, that that will encourage others to adopt Flash as well on their devices. In the interview, Lynch also discusses Adobe's efforts on its AIR platform, which bundles the Flash runtime into applications, allowing developers to easily port their applications to a variety of platforms, including the iPhone. Video here In a follow-up article, BoomTown's Kara Swisher also posts a video of Lynch showing off a digital version of Wired magazine has developed using Adobe AIR. The working concept, which Wired expects to be able to easily port to the iPad via the AIR platform, has also been previewed by Wired. Notice the bolded text. What you see there is one of the major reasons Apple has told Adobe to go screw themselves. There is absolutely NO REASON that Flash should be a CPU hog on the Mac as the Mac uses the same CPUs as does Windows. The problem is Adobe long ago decided to push Apple aside in its software development. All Adobe software has been written for Windows first, and then a flimsy port of that has been sold to Mac users. More recently, the Creative Suite comes out on Windows and Mac at the same time - because Mac people are 50% of the CS business. Well there are a lot of Macs being mucked up by Flash on the web. Jobs is sick and tired of the "second class citizen" treatment by Adobe and he's warned them. They better straighten-up since the rise in Macs will mean an even bigger Mac audience for Adobe products since not many cheap Windows machine buyers will be running CS. Photoshop on a netbook - wouldn't THAT be fun? And Lynch didn't even acknowledge that Flash on the Mac is bug ridden. You can't write good Mac OSX software with .NET.