There is not a soul on this planet that hasn’t heard of Apple’s negative stance towards Adobe’s Flash platform. Many should also be aware that, starting this October, the Mac maker is shipping its computers Flash-free, because it reportedly overloads the CPU, while draining MacBook batteries faster.While those who listen to Apple’s side of the story are inclined to agree with their stance, Adobe has an explanation of its own, as to why Flash doesn’t perform all that well on the new range of MacBook Airs.
As it turns out, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirmed at the Web 2.0 summit that Apple did not provide them with a pre-release MacBook Air unit for testing purposes, according to a
report by Engadget.
Because of this, Narayen reportedly said they didn’t have enough time to create an optimized version of Flash Player.
In other words, Adobe either…
a) worked "blind-folded" to create a Flash implementation that would hopefully match the hardware specs they’d heard of, or hinted at
before Apple's October 20
unveiling;
or…
b) left Flash just the way it was at the time the last maintenance was carried out on the software, and hoped it would perform well on Apple’s new computers.
The CEO reportedly added: “when we have access to hardware acceleration, we’ve proven that Flash has equal or better performance on every platform.”
Either way, it appears that the performance of Adobe’s Flash on new MacBook Airs was
intentionally crippled by Apple, in its ongoing crusade against the platform.
This got us thinking:
is Apple’s war with Adobe affecting customers worse than originally thought?Apparently, it is.
In its ongoing spat with the makers of Photoshop, Apple is
speeding up the Mac ecosystem’s transition to HTML5 using rather unorthodox methods, going by Narayen’s claims.
Let alone that Mac users are not being asked whether they want to continue using Flash on their Macs, even though they’ve done their bit of "thinking different", choosing a Mac over a clunky Windows PC.
The least Apple could do is endorse the software until the people who actually use it agree it’s getting stale,
Softpedia believes.
The company’s own interests are clearly more of a priority here, even though Apple continues to
score high marks in customer satisfaction surveys.
Find us on Google+
