Jobs rages against competition

Apple CEO Steve Jobs

After the extraordinary launch of the iPad, which unfortunately for Apple turned out not to be the miracle CEO Steve Jobs had described, Jobs had another, more private conference to discuss the controversy the iPad has generated.

As everyone knows, the major setback for the tablet was not introducing support for Adobe Flash. Why did not Apple include Flash? For the same reason they did not include Flash support for the iPhone: stability issues, or so Jobs claims. It is said that of the most crash reports that have been collected by Apple OS’ development team are related to Flash issues. Thus, Steve Jobs claims to only follow Senior Vice President Bertrand Serlet’s “plugin crash resistance” policy. Jobs also called Adobe “lazy” at the meeting, accusing them of not bothering to solve the code issues Adobe Flash has. Furthermore, he predicted that HTML5 will be the end of Flash. For those of you that don’t know it yet, HTML5 makes HD video streaming possible using just a sequence of images that are not compressed into Flash but contained in new superior quality format; you can test the new feature on youtube.com or Vimeo.com.

Also Jobs declared war to Google. He declared unfair Google’s interference in the mobile industry stating that Apple did not enter the search engine business and neither should Google have entered the phone business. He charged Google of wanting to “kill the iPhone” and promised that such thing will not happen. Unconfirmed sources also claimed that in his wrath against Google, Apple CEO called Google’s informal corporate motto: “don’t be evil” – “bullshit” or “a load of crap”, as some other sources quote.

Is this just a parade to shut up the unhappy iPad public or has Apple just declared war to two of the world’s greatest corporations?