After the pompous launch of iPhone OS running ipad Tablet, Apple CEO Steve Jobs got busy on media tour at several the media houses in US. During recent visit at The Wall Street Journal office, Jobs held Flash responsible for CPU resources hog, source of security holes and also being reason for crashing Macs reported Gawker. Apparently, Jobs had fired snarky comments against Adobe recently.
Apple and Adobe haven’t been able to join hands in years to bring Flash platform for Mac OS and iPhone OS. Infact, Adobe has introduced Flash wrapped in different package but not for the iPhone browser. WSJ office visit wasn’t the first time when Jobs criticized Flash for crashing Mac systems. Besides calling Flash a CPU hog and source of security holes , he went ahead and said We don’t spend a lot of energy on old technology . However, ditching Flash entirely would be trivial , noted Jobs.
Flash has been the trouble maker for Mac systems which is why it’s absent even on iPhone and upcoming iPad. Adobe’s Flash Lite version wasn’t CPU-efficient enough for iPhone platform hence wasn’t able to make it.
In defense of Flash, Anup Murarka, Adobe’s director of technology strategy and partner development, told ZDNet UK that any performance issues on the Mac are not caused by Flash, and he suggested that software products from other vendors also suffer when run on Macs. Citing technical aspects Murarka said, Mac OS libraries come with more overhead than their Windows equivalents,” he said. “Apps run faster on Windows than Mac OS [they're] generally about 20 percent slower using the GCC compiler.
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