Steve jobs attacks Adobe Flash calling it a ‘CPU hog’

Steve Jobs has been continuing his tour of media organisations to promote the Apple iPad recently, but kicked off a meeting with The Wall Street Journal with an Adobe-Flash-slamming. Reports suggest Jobs fired off a volley of insults in his continuing war against Adobe. This comes as a little bit of a backlash as Adobe slammed Apple for letting down iPhone users earlier this week.

Steve Jobs attacked Adobe Flash calling it a ‘CPU hog’, ‘A source full of security loop holes’ and a ‘dying technology’. Jobs then went on to say Apple does not “spend a lot of energy on old technology”. He went on to compare Flash to other systems Apple got people to ditch like floppy disks – not entirely fitting, but in context non-the-less. Adobe training courses.

He also quite conveniently referred to the iPad’s 10 hour battery life – and went on to say that, amongst other things, that Flash support would deminish the iPad’s battery life to a pitiful 1.5 hours.

What gets us is the fact that Flash is vastly used across the internet as a web graphics standard – that alone should be a good enough   reason to include it in your software. Sure HTML 5 is the future, but hardly anybody has adopted it as of yet. Flash is here right at this moment, and so it should be supported right now.

With so many manufacturers supporting Flash what makes Apple so special as to critisize Flash so much? Perhaps something happened in the past – maybe, and quote me if you like, the head of Adobe took one of Jobs’s loved ones out to dinner, made them pay, and then never called back – and despite constant calling for an explanation from Jobs, Adobe is still yet to take the call, or pay any money back for that lobster that tasted so good.