Jobs launches stinging attack upon Adobe and Google

by Stevie Smith - Feb 1 2010, 13:46

With the recently unveiled iPad still hogging much of the tech world’s headlines, mounting reports suggest company chief executive Steve Jobs has launched a stinging attack against search giant Google and software company Adobe.

According to a report originally published by Wired, Jobs dropped his bombshells criticising Adobe and Google during an Apple employee question and answer session held a few days after the January 27 media event officially launching the iPad tablet computer.

“We did not enter the search business. They entered the phone business,” said Jobs of Google's Nexus One smartphone, according to an unnamed Wired source privy to the Q&A session. “Make no mistake: they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them.”

After also labelling Google’s ‘don’t be evil’ corporate mantra as little more than “a load of crap” Jobs also slammed Adobe’s Flash platform for being “so buggy” and accused the company of being “lazy” because it has “all this potential to do interesting things but refuses to do it.”

Adding a little extra pepper to stories surrounding Apple’s stubborn refusal to marry its iPhone (and iPad) with Flash – which is widely used to power online video – Jobs also apparently said Flash is responsible for the majority of the crashes suffered by Mac owners.

Offering an insight into the future of online video, Jobs also predicted that: “No one will be using Flash… The world is moving to HTML5.”

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