What are you talking about?

Plug ins? IE 6? Company Offices? What on earth has this to do with the WSJ dropping flash?

ADB

Apple Desktop Bus was a terrific way of hooking up keyboards, mice, tablets, midi keyboards etc back in the early days. Way ahead of the game.

It was however, purely Apple... not licensable to any other computer maker and thats why it probably died eventually.

USB was an Intel development and believe it or not Apple was the first company to adopt it.

I think you will find that there are no other proprietary ports on Apple computers since the introduction of the first iMacs.

Assuming You Actually Have A Need For Them

There are USB floppy drive devices. Searching for "floppy drive usb" will give you a nice list.

I've had to use one for clients who have ten-year-old or more equipment.

HTML5

To H.264 of course. Heard of a little thing called HTML5?

...to H.264

Duh. Which isn't limited to Quicktime. Although Quicktime isn't anywhere near as buggy or resource hungry as Flash...doesn't crash, doesn't use half as much CPU.

"As buggy and resource hungry as Flash!"

Buggy? Are you sure about that? Cant think of when its crashed on me.

If I monitor my CPU load when running flash content each processor runs at 75% load. Battery life nosedives. Fans kick in within seconds of playing a flash encoded movie.

Quicktime? 15% per processor.

Out of order?

Don't you think Jobs has a good reason for being bitter so why not call a spade a spade? It is very true that Adobe's product is complete garbage, and especially so on the Mac. It is also very true that Adobe have been effectively ignoring the Mac platform for the past decade. It is only now that Adobe are faced with obsolescence for one of their key products that they are suddenly pretending to give a fuck about proper support for any of Apple's OSes. Quite rightly, Jobs is telling them to shove it where the sun don't shine and good riddance too. As another poster mentions below, along with Microsoft, Adobe have become one of the worst operated tech companies of the past twenty years.

re: Poor Adobe

In a lot of countries, truth is a valid defense to defamation. Try using the poor neglected Linux flash plugin sometime.

Doesn't crash the machine or browser... but falls over itself a hell of a lot.

What a failtard...

"Surely this has got to be getting right up the people at Adobe's nose?" I'd imagine that it is. Fuck 'em if the truth hurts. They know what they need to do.

"Maybe its even a case for sueing them, definmation? sladner?" Seriously, how old are you? Defamation (PLEASE! Get a dictionary or use a browser that has inline spell checking) IS slander! For something to be slanderous the statement has to be proven to be false (i.e. a lie) beyond all reasonable doubt. That's simply not possible because Flash IS buggy and full of holes. FACT. So pointing this out when asked why you aren't supporting it as a company is wholly reasonable and not at all illegal! Lacking class, maybe, but legally fine...

"I don't know, but going around telling people that some one else product is garbage is a bit out of order." Not really! They all do it!

"But then, its apple. They don't like to give any one any choice. Suprised they don't have a 'web protal' and thats the only site you can see with their browser.... after all, surely there is no need to view the hole web, apple.com must be enougth." I won't even bother commenting on that assault on my language, suffice to say that you are talking out of your arse!

Poor Adobe?

If people bothered to find out what Jobs has actually said about Flash and Adobe I am sure they would agree with him.

Jobs is a man that admires well designed hardware and software no matter where it comes from. He is on record at being upset with Adobe for having such great potential with flash as a product but then putting so little effort into developing it or polishing its code so it runs efficiently... especially on mobile devices.

He is no less critical of the developers that have worked for him... One of my favourite quotes from him was after a programmer showed him a new version of a product he was working on that did not have a great user interface:

"You baked a really great cake... too bad you used dog shit for icing".

Corporatism in general is mean.

Employees are expected to be 100% loyal to the company that employs them. In return you receive the smallest paycheque and most minimal benefits the company feels it can get away with. All the while under the constant threat of being downsized/rightsized/laid off/outsourced/asked to take a wage cut to keep your job/etc.

We are all totally disposable. The only thing that isn’t is short term revenues.

Heil the cult of the quarterly bonus!

Ditto

Yeah, what he/she/it said. Alas, it seems that right-wing Europe is taking over the shitty traits of the USA.

Politicians & managers - the second(*) against the wall when the revolution comes.

(*) Points for knowing who the first are.

Actually...

…CS5 moves several apps to Cocoa to get 64 bits. They would have done that sooner hadn't Apple produced and then cancelled Carbon 64.

3G iPhone

Sorry to pull you up on this but what he actually said was that at the time of the first iPhone the 3G chips available were too power hungry - which was true.

Sure enough, when more power efficient chips became available they launched the iPhone 3G

Somehow including this in your post seems irrelevant.

Most users...?

"I've lost count of the number of times I've seen people forget to manually eject their USB pendrives from a computer before pulling it out of the port."

Most users don't "forget" to do it -- they didn't know in the first place!

So design error one is making it possible.

Design error two is that the OS doesn't pop up a great big flashing error every single time you do it, but gives you a small non-descript dialogue box or balloon, and includes a little checkbox saying "don't show this error again".

Unplugging a device without stopping it first risks data loss, so the user shouldn't be able to ignore it....