Wired reports that Steve Jobs held a "town hall" meeting, as he frequent does after a big launch, with the entire Apple staff at its One Infinite Loop headquarters in Cupertino.
People that were present say that Jobs didn't pull any punches when asked about Google and Adobe.
On Google:
We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake: they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them [...] This don't be evil mantra? It's bullshit.
On Adobe:
They are lazy. They have all this potential to do interesting things, but they just refuse to do it. They don't do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash. The world is moving to HTML5.
Jobs also took the opportunity to take questions and delivered a few other pearls of wisdom:
- Jobs considers the iPad on a par with the iPhone and Mac as one of the most important products he's worked on
- Apple acquired Lala because they wanted to bring Lala's people to the iTunes team
- The next iPhone is "an A+ update" that Android won't be able to keep up with
- New Macs this year will take Apple "to the next level"
- Apple is still playing "wait and see" with regards to Blu-Ray, and won't implement it until/unless Blu-Ray sales take off
Tip: Wired