wraggster
March 20th, 2013, 22:44
Why did Apple hire former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch as vice president of technology? (http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/apple-hires-former-adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-crusher-of-iphones/) Adobe and Apple spent years fighting a much-publicized battle over the latter's decision to ban Adobe Flash from iOS devices. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was very public in his condemnation of Flash as a tool for rich-content playback, denigrating it in an April 2010 letter posted on Apple's Website (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/) as flawed with regard to battery life, security, reliability and performance. Lynch was very much the public face of Adobe's public-relations pushback to Apple's criticism; in a corporate video shot for an Adobe developer conference in 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtTfFDena4 (Hat tip to Daring Fireball's John Gruber for digging that video up. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/20/lynch-steamroller)) As recently as 2010, he was still arguing that Flash was superior to HTML5, which eventually surpassed it to become the virtual industry standard for Web-based rich content. It's interesting to speculate whether Steve Jobs would have hired someone who so publicly denigrated Apple's flagship product. But Jobs is dead, and his corporate successors in Cupertino—tasked with leading Apple through a period of fierce competition — obviously looked at Lynch and decided he'd make a perfect fit as an executive."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/03/20/1649250/apple-hires-former-adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-destroyer-of-iphones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtTfFDena4 (Hat tip to Daring Fireball's John Gruber for digging that video up. (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/03/20/lynch-steamroller)) As recently as 2010, he was still arguing that Flash was superior to HTML5, which eventually surpassed it to become the virtual industry standard for Web-based rich content. It's interesting to speculate whether Steve Jobs would have hired someone who so publicly denigrated Apple's flagship product. But Jobs is dead, and his corporate successors in Cupertino—tasked with leading Apple through a period of fierce competition — obviously looked at Lynch and decided he'd make a perfect fit as an executive."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/13/03/20/1649250/apple-hires-former-adobe-cto-kevin-lynch-destroyer-of-iphones