Friday, May 14, 2010

Adobe is becoming the Jay Leno of developer tools


Adobe needs to take a page from David Letterman: "You get fired, you get another gig! You go across the street and you punish them and you make them eat your words!"

Adobe is trying to leverage public opinion - and even government intervention! - by portraying itself as the victim of a monopoly power. They start with the assumption that the iPhone is the only gateway to the mobile web, and of course it's not. The high road would be to make a Flash runtime for Android that kicks so much ass that Apple has to change their stance or be left behind in the market. This duplicitous war of words is a low road, a beggar's stance. A Jay Leno move.

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