[X4U] iPad news

[Zane H. Healy]

At 6:02 PM -0500 1/29/10, Shawn King wrote:
>On 1/29/10 5:34 PM, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>>  I think the most important of these is the lack of flash support.
>>  Does anyone know why this is?
>
>The official reason is that Apple feels that Flash is poorly coded and isn't
>optimized for the Mac OS.
>
>Unofficially? Steve Jobs hates Flash.

Geez, why doesn't that surprise me.

BTW, have you noticed that you can not buy Adobe Lightroom at the 
Apple Store?  You can buy things like Creative Suite Premium, but 
Lightroom isn't to be found.

Steve Jobs also hates consumers making choices.

Zane


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