Steve Jobs and Flash...
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Apple are being too controlling .. I'm fine with that as long as they admit they're no longer the 'good guys'.
At least it was agreed that Microsoft were evil when they were at their height. Apple uses smoke and mirrors to appear otherwise - I find it distasteful.
Re: Jobs as a tyrant .. reading some of the stories told by people who've worked with him, it seems he runs a pretty tight ship, is alternately fearsome / dangerously charismatic - and is a player.
I'm not sure if that means he's a tyrant. Maybe any business leader is going to share similar characteristics?
I wouldn't say Adobe are better - but I would like to tell Jobs to fuck off .. because the visionary future he's trying to compose looks like a place I'd rather not experience.
He's all about playing the shareholder game, and he's a brilliantly clever man who wants to win at any cost. Thank god he decided to go into computing, rather than religion - just imagine if he'd started a cult!