""the bozo explosion" where did that come from." Here;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/01/31/why-every-company-needs-a-no-bozo-policy/
"I can guarantee Apple is filled up with those as well."
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Apple's Hiring of Kevin Lynch Questioned Amid Concerns Over His Staunch Defense of Flash
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""the bozo explosion" where did that come from." Here;
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/01/31/why-every-company-needs-a-no-bozo-policy/
"I can guarantee Apple is filled up with those as well."
You can?
why would he be jealous? the man makes half-a-million a year by being his own boss at home writing for his blog. jealous? i dont think so...
Who has raised concerns??...a bunch of fanboy nobodies??
Everyone has employer and product loyalty until you leave and move on...it's called professionalism!!
Everyone has employer and product loyalty until you leave and move on...it's called professionalism!!
The current Australian government don't get it. They don't get it in many many ways. So really it's not extreme. I'd ignore anything they say and chalk it up to incompetence at governing a country. I am Australian, and I realise, when our current government, makes a statement like that, you foreigners are like "That's pretty extreme" but in reality it's "meh shutup, we know better". And we do know better.
So lessons to be learnt here:
1. Apple Maps data is not that deadly.
2. The current Australian government should not be listened to.
I honestly think Gruber is the worst evangelist for a product any company can have. Guy is a complete shill and can't accept any criticism of Apple
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Lynch might not be A grade but Gruber is definitely a D grade blogger
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Lynch might not be A grade but Gruber is definitely a D grade blogger
It just shows how much class Apple has - hire someone despite of trashing Apple in his old position where he was put into a position (by Apple) to defend one of the major products. They overcome the childlike tantrums and don't do the I-don't-talk-to-you-because-you-were-mean-to-us-in-the-past and hired him probably because of his skills and also see that he can be a fun guy. Now Lynch just has to show that he can live up to the expectations of the new job, but I am sure there are good reasons why he was hired.
If Flash is crashing your iMac there is a problem with your iMac or OS X. Normal user programs shouldn't ever be able to crash a machine.
Kevin Lynch while working for Adobe did what anyone in his position would have done. He defended the product he was being paid to defend from an attack by an outside source. The outside source in this case happened to be Jobs, and Lynch did what he was being paid to do, he defended Adobe's position. What else was he supposed to do, call a presser and say "Ya, Steve's right, our product is crap and we are approaching irrelevancy in this area."
Time like technology marches on, new opportunities present themselves.
Not sure why being loyal to the company paying your salary is being looked upon by the armchair CEO's as a bad thing.
Time like technology marches on, new opportunities present themselves.
Not sure why being loyal to the company paying your salary is being looked upon by the armchair CEO's as a bad thing.
I would like to have seen Adobe publicly announce a phase-out of Flash for all computer browsers -- a hard line drawn in the sand -- and full encouragement of distribution of Flash through apps and in platforms' respective app stores.
I'd also like to see Adobe remove javascript functionality from their PDF reader. Having scripting available in Printable Document Format files has huge downside (malware) while having essentially no upside for anyone.
Flash Player and Adobe Reader are currently 2 of the 3 primary vectors for malware on Macs. Taking a stand to remove these vectors for modern computers would make PCs far safer and would be a huge PR move for Adobe. I don't quite know why they didn't do this; perhaps admitting the obvious security problems with Flash and their PDF reader would open them to liability.
I agree that Lynch would and should have nothing to do with Flash at Apple. At the same time, you should note: Flash is not dead. Flash plays just fine with the app store model; Flash apps like Machinarium have done quite well in the various app stores. Flash runs just fine on Macs, iPads, iPhones and the iPad touch -- as long as the Flash apps come through the App stores. Adobe supports the distribution of Flash code through all available App Stores: Apple, Blackberry (RIM), Android, etc.
The evil is not Flash or Java; the evil is the running of Flash/Java code in the browser. Distributing Flash/Java code through app stores avoids these problems. Simple.
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Absolutely. And he'll probably bring the same loyalty zeal to his VP position at Apple.
I have a little more faith in Tim Cook's ability to screen a candidate for a job at Apple than I do John Gruber's. John has great insight and leads, but he's far from a fly on the wall of the conference room.
The Bowett deal -- people, let it go. Do your homework and count how may times Steve Jobs himself brought in a "bozo" to not only Apple but NeXT and Pixar in his lifetime.
Really, really, Bad Hire. End of story. 
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Joe,
Been in the Cloud Too Long. Come back to earth, eh?
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Joe,
Been in the Cloud Too Long. Come back to earth, eh?
This.
It was his job to be an evangelist for Adobe products. Of course he was vocal about it.
Look at Stephen "Stepto" Toulouse, former XBOX Live Director of Enforcement. He was militantly pro-Xbox when he worked for Microsoft, but has recently said that he has multiple Playstations now, and not a single Xbox. And he left Microsoft under good terms, so it wasn't a "sour grapes" thing, either. He evangelized his company's product when he worked there, and revealed his true feelings when he left.
it's not personal at all to suggest somebody is a professional bozo. See John Dvorak.
CTO is an evangelist position at Adobe? Seems like as CTO, he'd have been directly involved in the decision to continue to develop Flash for mobile for too long.
What an inane argument. Gruber seems to have lost his way since Jobs died. All he can do these days is continue to relive past glories by harking back to what "Steve would have done". Steve consistently defended any Apple technology, regardless of whether it was flawed or not. Just look back at antennagate or any other misstep by apple under his tenure. Gruber has no idea what Steve would do, any more than anyone else. If he did, he'd be CEO of Apple. Pretending that Kevin Lynch is a bozo for doing the same is just childish attention seeking from a blogger who knows he isn't relevant any more.
Having dealt with Scott on more then on occasion, I would prefer Tim hire a magic 8-ball instead. Its just as informative and far fewer good employees quit for having been yelled at by the 8-Ball. I wouldn't consider him an A player, in fact I'm not sure I'd give him a passing grade.
Thanks for the link on Forbes. Guarantee is seeing the norms of every company in the US. You cannot sustain a hiring practice without getting a few under the curve. The so called A+ graders would require a higher investment and probably not required for the type of work done.
I think Adobe didn't care very much about the quality of Flash on the Mac, and it showed. Apple obviously cared. Then things changed, Mac market share has been growing, and iOS share among the potential Flash market is enormous. I think Adobe has worked hard to improve Flash, but it happened too late, when nobody cared anymore.
My first real big annoyance was when I visited a website where I _needed_ some information, and it told me that it didn't work because Flash for Windows wasn't installed (on my Mac), and offered my where I could download Flash for Windows to my Mac. (Flash for MacOS X was installed).
Then one day, several crashes while browsing, went through crash reports, and I had nine Safari crashes in a day, all inside Flash. There's the point where you give up.
I don't know about where you work, but at three mid-to-large companies I've worked for, the CTO is *NOT* in direct charge of engineering. At my current company, "evangelist" is probably the best description of him! (The VP of Research & Development is the one in charge of engineering, and he reports directly to the CEO.)
