[opendtv] Adobe responds, as it shows Android tablet prototype

From: Albert Manfredi <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 15:43:06 -0400

I think Lynch is saying that Flash can morph into an HTML5 authoring tool, AND
that Flash would be introducing plug-ins to go beyond what HTML5 has to offer,
just as Flash did in the past with HTML.

That would make sense. Who's to say that HTML5 is the last word in Web
authoring? Doesn't seem reasonable.

Bert

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http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/05/06/adobe-shows-android-tablet-prototype.htm

Adobe shows Android tablet prototype
CTO accuses Apple of creating new walled gardens of content

By CAROLINE GABRIEL
Published: 6 May, 2010

Adobe took the opportunity of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco to respond to
the recent torrent of abuse from Apple. It did this with more measured words
than Apple CEO Steve Jobs used last week in his open letter criticizing Flash,
but sought to prove its point with actual technology. It showed a prototype of
an Android tablet running Flash/AIR, to demonstrate that its key technology can
create just the sort of rich web experience where Jobs says it is inadequate.

Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch, in a high profile keynote, insisted his firm was
committed to "freedom of choice on the web" and did not see the web world as a
battle between plug-ins like Flash and the emerging standard HTML5. Indeed, it
would develop tools for HTML5.

His most fiery words about Apple were moderate given the recent hostilities,
and Apple's effective barring of Flash from the iPhone, a decision that could
spark a federal antitrust enquiry. "It's kind of like railroads in the 1800s
with everyone trying to compete on freight and delivery", but with differently
gauged tracks, Lynch said. Only standard rails allowed for competitors to fight
"on the merits of what they do, not the gauge of the rails". He went on: "The
gauge of the rails today is running native code … on a particular operating
system in a way that is too expensive to go and make it for others. That cost
is preventing healthy competition."

He bemoaned Apple's strategy of preserving walled gardens of content, saying:
"I don't think it's the role of a company to exercise judgment on what people
are making." Jobs was touting his open credentials in his letter, with the
commitment to HTML5, writing: "HTML5 is completely open and controlled by a
standards committee, of which Apple is a member" - though Google criticized
Apple for sticking to the licensed H.264 video codec, rather than an open
source solution, for HTML5 content (Google, of course, has a ready alternative,
putting the codec it acquired with ON2 into open source and trying to make it
into a de facto standard).

Lynch agreed that HTML5 was "a terrific step forward" and promised that Adobe
would "make the best tools in the world for HTML5", but also pointed to Flash's
history of innovating quickly to fill holes in HTML, when that platform was
stagnating. It would continue to do that, he argued, believing that the two
technologies would continue to coexist.

With Jobs arguing that Adobe has failed to deliver a usable, low power and rich
user experience on mobile devices, the firm sought to convince visitors
otherwise, with a demonstration of the sort of hybrid device on which the next
wave of the web software battle will be fought. A prototype tablet showed off
the cross-platform Air 2.0 running on Android and an Nvidia Tegra processor.

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