I think he's just borrowing old lingo from Jobs. I never found Gruber to be particularly insightful.
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Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch Joining Apple as VP of Technologies
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I think he's just borrowing old lingo from Jobs. I never found Gruber to be particularly insightful.
Kevin is a seasoned technology manager, and from what I've seen is a cool guy. I don't think he's going to be in a position to be dictating the direction of Apple, but he will probably help Mansfield focus on other things he'd rather be focusing on.
By the way, you can talk about security exploits with Flash til you're blue in the face, but any other company that had a similar product would have just as many vulnerabilities. That's because Flash is an extremely complex product. Heck, iOS has a lot of exploits too, but you guys just complain with Apple fixes those (because jailbreak).
By the way, you can talk about security exploits with Flash til you're blue in the face, but any other company that had a similar product would have just as many vulnerabilities. That's because Flash is an extremely complex product. Heck, iOS has a lot of exploits too, but you guys just complain with Apple fixes those (because jailbreak).
More from Gruber...Lynch ran over an iPhone with a steamroller back in 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtTfFDena4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtTfFDena4
The first thing I thought of was a dearth of innovation...
This guy is an exec, not a developer. He's not going to improve Aperture, or Final Cut, or bring Flash to IOS. He's going to set a tone. If what I've seen from Adobe over the last 5 years is any indication, I'm not expecting big things.
Personally, I think Apple needs to stop focusing on big name talent from big name companies, and start bringing in the self righteous brats that really drive innovation. There is plenty of staid management to keep the ship on course, what Apple needs, methinks, is energy and a healthy disregard for safety.
You're not going to find that at Adobe.
I really feel sorry for the guys who think apple will make real pro apps again... Seriously?
No Mac pro, intergrated GPU on "pro" laptops, I devices taking over everything.. Apple are a consumer electronics company, not a prosumer anymore.
They are probably buying him away from adobe as an attempt to make a dig at them "not only have we convinced the masses they don't need your technology, we are also going to steal one if your guys due to a remark you made at us years ago - by the way, he's going to be a personal cleaner for Tim, we won't even use his skills"
No Mac pro, intergrated GPU on "pro" laptops, I devices taking over everything.. Apple are a consumer electronics company, not a prosumer anymore.
They are probably buying him away from adobe as an attempt to make a dig at them "not only have we convinced the masses they don't need your technology, we are also going to steal one if your guys due to a remark you made at us years ago - by the way, he's going to be a personal cleaner for Tim, we won't even use his skills"
Did you not read the blog post linked to in the post to which you responded?
I was referring to the bozo title. I don't hold a very high opinion of Gruber's blog, but I just read it to respond to your post. A number of the quotes from several years ago do sound like posturing. I haven't personally touched Flash in a few years, but I did find some complaints on the current implementation of the Flash to HTML5 convertor. I would point out that this information was not necessarily buried, and they chose to hire him.
I can't tell if this is good news or bad news... I've pretty might switched complete over to adobe software from their Apple equivalents (FCP7->premiere, Aperture->lightroom). On one hand, this might be good for the future of Apple's professional software. On the other hand, adobe may suffer?
Corporate bulleying?
Now we can see comments mentioning, how great Flash is and how it is useful for the mankind etc....but few years back when Adobe-Apple rivalry at its peak, they were singing different tune against Flash....
I am sure Adobe will get better replacement and get rid of Flash...!
Now we can see comments mentioning, how great Flash is and how it is useful for the mankind etc....but few years back when Adobe-Apple rivalry at its peak, they were singing different tune against Flash....
I am sure Adobe will get better replacement and get rid of Flash...!
No, actually, Macromedia bought Flash (the known as FutureSplash Animator) from FutureWave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FutureSplash_Animator
Sorry to go OT, but as a user of FSA, I have fond memories of it back then. I think it was less than $100 before Macromedia got it and jacked the price up to $500 and started bloating it and forcing it into the web.
There are two sides of the coin here's
On the one hand yes- he was a flash lobbyist. I mean that guy ran over the iPhone with a car. Literally.
On the other hand: adobe (and macromedia) makes/made some really great stuff. Some of the things they do are actually kind of amazing.
This guy brings some great know how. and yet he is A guy that destroys iPhone... That is just disrespectful. You didn't see Steve jobs smashing competitors products with a sledge hammer. I don't know if he fits the culture .
On the one hand yes- he was a flash lobbyist. I mean that guy ran over the iPhone with a car. Literally.
On the other hand: adobe (and macromedia) makes/made some really great stuff. Some of the things they do are actually kind of amazing.
This guy brings some great know how. and yet he is A guy that destroys iPhone... That is just disrespectful. You didn't see Steve jobs smashing competitors products with a sledge hammer. I don't know if he fits the culture .
Well Cook did hire Browett after all. I wonder if this hire had to be approved by Cook or if it stopped with Mansfield?
Yeah. All he did was slander everyone and call them idiots every chance he got.
I think the business suits know that everything the competition does is mostly for show and fun. Dude guy might've ran over an iPhone, but it's pretty obvious that Tim Cook or Apple at large couldn't care less. It's one of those things only the fanbases take seriously.
Hopefully they will make Xcode become more like Flash CS6 Professional.
I can see it going in that direction, especially with the recent integration of interface designer into Xcode.
All they need to do now is add some killer animation and tween features into Xcode and proper support of layers in Xcode -- basically what Flash CS6 Professional has now, with Open GL (cocos2d) properly integrated.
They already have support for "buttons" in Xcode the next logical step will be "movieclips."
Come on Apple! The "movieclip" feature in Flash CS6 is the only reason why developers still use Flash CS6. If Xcode 5 was to have some sort of "movieclip" equivalent then a lot of people won't bother to use Flash CS6 anymore.
Also I can see Xcode 5 having one click iAds integration and simplified IAP integration.
Everyone knows that Xcode is probably the most unApple like product that they make, hopefully with this new hire they can make Xcode into a Flash CS6 killer.
I can see it going in that direction, especially with the recent integration of interface designer into Xcode.
All they need to do now is add some killer animation and tween features into Xcode and proper support of layers in Xcode -- basically what Flash CS6 Professional has now, with Open GL (cocos2d) properly integrated.
They already have support for "buttons" in Xcode the next logical step will be "movieclips."
Come on Apple! The "movieclip" feature in Flash CS6 is the only reason why developers still use Flash CS6. If Xcode 5 was to have some sort of "movieclip" equivalent then a lot of people won't bother to use Flash CS6 anymore.
Also I can see Xcode 5 having one click iAds integration and simplified IAP integration.
Everyone knows that Xcode is probably the most unApple like product that they make, hopefully with this new hire they can make Xcode into a Flash CS6 killer.
Thing is, you really can't make something like Photoshop more memory efficient.
It's not like it's so bloated it eats up a full gig of ram when you first fire it up. It barely uses 100 meg at first boot.
But what happens when you start piling on all the 20MP raw pictures? You have 3 or 4 opened up, each one with 8 layers with various effects on it, and 15 levels of undo. This is rather modest by PS standards, but even its gonna eat up some ram. At least 500 meg by this point. Start playing around with various CMYK color profiles, throw in more layers with more effects, it's gonna start adding up. Pretty soon, you'll have a GB and a half used.
It's not that Photoshop is memory inefficient, it's that what Photoshop does is memory intensive by its very nature.
I think it had be great for him to join Apple as VP for professional creative markets. And let's hope he left Adobe because his disdain for their lack of interest in future technologies, crappy installers, buggy software and feature creep.
and lets hope that he doesnt bring that Adobe Mindset with him to Apple
After having to use Adobe Acrobat for PDF manipulation for bulk files, constant issues, bugs, inconsistencies, ignorant design choices..
better hope none of that makes it's way over to apple with him...
Maybe they hired him to kill him silently and bury him under the new space campus? Maybe that was Jobs' dying wish?
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Tbh, I use Apple office suit instead of MS Office since I don't need any of the extra features of Excel and Apple's apps run much better than MS apps on Macs. So if Apple can release a gimped photoshop for 1/20 the price, many people would be down for that since it takes a true professional to access every feature of that pricy app. Then again, it'd have Photoshop Elements as a rival in that case.
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Tbh, I use Apple office suit instead of MS Office since I don't need any of the extra features of Excel and Apple's apps run much better than MS apps on Macs. So if Apple can release a gimped photoshop for 1/20 the price, many people would be down for that since it takes a true professional to access every feature of that pricy app. Then again, it'd have Photoshop Elements as a rival in that case.