CEO smackdown, part 2: Jobs on the rampage
Yesterday, I reported that Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata had a good laugh about the iPad. Now, Jobs is getting a little wound up about everybody mocking his new device, and doing a little heckling of his own.
In a town hall with his employees, Jobs started an angry rant against Google, unhappy that they were invading his company’s smart phone turf. Ever the showman, Jobs capped off his tirade with “This don’t be evil mantra: ‘It’s bullshit.’” “Don’t be evil” is Google’s informal corporate slogan.
Jobs’ iPad has received a lot of criticism for not supporting Adobe’s Flash, and now he’s let people know why it doesn’t. He feels “they [Adobe] are lazy… they have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it… Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy.” He added that Flash will soon be dead with the rise of HTML5.
Not willing to take things lying down, Adobe has thrown up a collection of what iPads trying to access Flash encrusted sites might look like on their blog. Until Adobe’s blogger got in a bit of trouble for it, this collection included a slice of Bang Bros. The implication, of course: you can’t look at porn on your iPad during meetings, so don’t even bother with the thing.
stay classy, adobe!