{"id":1338,"date":"2010-04-30T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T11:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2010-04-30T08:46:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T12:46:35","slug":"adobe-its-time-to-wake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Adobe: It&#8217;s time to wake up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/plugin_crash_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1342\" title=\"plugin_crash_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/plugin_crash_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/plugin_crash_2.png 480w, https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/plugin_crash_2-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking about Mr. Jobs&#8217;s assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, [Adobe CEO Shantanu] Narayen says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something &#8220;to do with the Apple operating system.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/04\/29\/live-blogging-the-journals-interview-with-adobe-ceo\/\">&#8212; Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Seriously<\/em>, Mr. Narayen?<\/p>\n<p>You <em>really<\/em> think that when, you have an operating system based on technology that&#8217;s been stable for generations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cornell.edu\/staff\/loredo\/unix2mac\/\">even before Apple existed<\/a>, and it runs all of Adobe&#8217;s <em>other<\/em> products just fine, but <strong>only<\/strong> Flash seems to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.adobe.com\/thread\/42930\">repeatedly<\/a> eat up <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread.jspa?threadID=2207829&amp;tstart=0\">CPU cycles<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/c2.api.ning.com\/files\/g9HqbFq1eQXZkSPYU83jhxkEv32nnzwLzkJIBgPe3M*NanmVeUEY3fm6I2u9IkyGLLP*nW9OkSC84N1wQkkGdKi4ATdXiuM1\/IHateFlash.png?width=531&amp;height=485\">crash<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/upload\/166\/plugin_crash_3.png\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/17\/2010\/03\/500x_crashed-plugin.jpg\">over<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ignorethecode.net\/upload\/166\/plugin_crash_2.png\">over<\/a> again, that you can keep a straight face while blaming the operating system?!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to quit defending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/aboutadobe\/invrelations\/adobeandmacromedia.html\">a very poor decision<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Adobe&#8217;s products were expensive but wonderful, before Flash was allowed to infiltrate your product line.  Now, they&#8217;re even more expensive, but bloated and lack innovation or serious thought to updating your code to modern standards. \u00c2\u00a0You&#8217;re basing your future on a product that people hated from its very inception, isn&#8217;t stable no matter how much you wish to insist otherwise, and frankly, we&#8217;re tired of it.  No one believes you.  <strong>It&#8217;s time to quit barking, and fix your broken product!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking about Mr. Jobs&#8217;s assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, [Adobe CEO Shantanu] Narayen says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something &#8220;to do with the Apple operating system.&#8221; &#8212; Wall Street Journal Seriously, Mr. Narayen? You really think that when, you have an operating system based on technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[261,39,258,96,125,260,259],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits","tag-adobe","tag-apple","tag-flash","tag-mac","tag-os-x","tag-buggy","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}