"Apple engineer reveals the real reason Steve Jobs didn’t allow Flash on the iPhone... ... Jobs’ vehement refusal to support the technology may have had less to do with security considerations and more to do with the fact that Adobe, as a partner, couldn’t be relied upon to address said security issues... ...Jobs was miffed that Adobe CEO 'Shantanu Narayen would not take his phone calls.' As a result, Jobs had zero faith that Adobe would be able to address what Jobs reportedly categorized as “mere engineering problems.” ...'One of the things that has irked me over the subsequent years was that people widely ridiculed Steve for this decision,' Burrough later added. 'However, the decision was the right one based on both technical reasons and that Adobe was a shi**y partner. Almost a decade later, it turns out that Steve Jobs was right. Flash is dead and Adobe is a still a shi**y partner.' It’s crazy to think that the entire Apple/Adobe brouhaha essentially boiled down to Apple’s mistrust of Adobe as opposed to any insurmountable technical hurdles. But whatever the reason, hindsight now tells us that the iPhone was always much better off without Flash." http://bgr.com/2016/12/12/steve-jobs-iphone-adobe-flash-testing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBoyGeniusReport+(BGR+|+Boy+Genius+Report)
