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Thursday, March 6, 2008

So it sounds like Steve Jobs doesn't want to support Flash on the iPhone because Apple would like to use its own PDF rendering engine instead of Adobe's. Adobe might be saying we'll give you the Flash Player if you also take our PDF engine instead of your own. Now... Preview in OS X is FAST. Much prefer it to any Adobe Reader. I would hope that Adobe would see the value in getting Flash on as many devices as possible, so if this rumor over PDF is true, and I know PDF is huge, but let Apple use its PDF engine so we can all get Flash on the iPhone and rock the world even more with the experiences we create on that platform. It would be a huge win for Apple and also Adobe. But the largest win would be for iPhone users.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: “Adobe collect a substantial fee for the luxury of including the chopped version of the Flash player on devices (that why it is not available for free from their web site). Why on earth they would trade Flash for PDF? PDF on MacOSX is much more encased in the OS than any other system (infact it is called DisplayPDF for a good reason). I have heard another rumor: we will soon been invaded by aliens”; March 6, 2008 12:09 PM
e.dolecki said...: “PDF in OS X is so much quicker. And yes, its in the iPhone. Whatever the reason, doesn't look like its coming any time soon™”; March 6, 2008 4:55 PM

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