What a crock! There's nothing "open" about Adobe products except that they want to sell you their overpriced, buggy stuff that thousands of content-creators have gotten locked into. Adobe knows there are not enough ready alternatives so keep pumping out pricey paid updates while failing to fix their old products' bugs and the "free" stuff like Apple versions of Flash which has not been fixed since OS X was first launched now nearly 10 years ago.
Jobs starts talking about Flash and voila!, Adobe finally issues a fix. If Adobe is so open why is all of their stuff completely closed and proprietary? Sure, PDFs are a standard, but it's their standard, not the web's and if you want to produce PDF content you have to pay Adobe dearly for the right to do so.
On the other hand Apple is just saying, "hey, your software doesn't really work on small devices" and adopts an open web standard, HTML 5, to replace Adobe's closed and proprietary and VERY resource intensive, vulnerable and battery-draining buggy Flash product.
The only thing "open" about Adobe is their palm, raking in the dough.
How hypocritical can you get?
JoeL
Atlanta, GA
The best of ZDNet, delivered
ZDNet Newsletters
Get the best of ZDNet delivered straight to your inbox
