Today Apple CEO Steve Jobs posted Thoughts on Flash, explaining why Apple will not allow Adobe Flash Player on iPhones, iPods and iPads. In the post, Jobs makes the following assertion:
Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true.
So according to Jobs, Apple is open and Flash is closed. But according to a WSJ interview with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Flash is the open one:
I find it amusing, honestly. Flash is an open specification.
So who is really open?
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