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Possibly smarting from the less than gushing reception that his iPad received last week, Apple supremo Steve Jobs has come out swinging against a couple of firms that have ticked him off recently. Surprisingly, they aren't publishing houses.
According to a write up on Wired, Jobs suggested that Google may need to change its mantra from 'don't be evil' to something far less flattering, during a rant about the iPhone. Wired got the skinny from someone attending a big Apple meeting, reporting that Steve said: "They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them. This don't be evil mantra: It's bullshit."
Wow, someone sounds a bit paranoid. Although another Apple'er has popped into the comments to inform us that Jobs actually said that the mantra was 'crap', we think that's just nit picking. The message is the same, whatever the choice of words. 'How dare someone else try and sell a phone'.
Jobs is of course reacting to the release of Google's Nexus One, which has apparently angered him by being fairly cool, and by actually having a decent reception - unlike a cetain iPad.
On the subject of the iPad, one of the criticisms thrown at the device was the fact that it doesn't support Flash, here Jobs once again threw out his toys, along with a couple of insults.
"They (Adobe) have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don't do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy," he is reported as saying. "Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash".
We can be sure that no one will be using it on the iPad, or the iPhone, but it is pretty popular elsewhere Steve. Although this is pretty unpleasant stuff, we thank the Apple workers for passing it on.
01 Feb 2010
