Live-Blogging With Adobe CEO

[Speaking about Mr. Jobs's assertion that Adobe is the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, Mr. Narayan says if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something "to do with the Apple operating system."]<p>Wow. Any support I had for Mr. Narayan and Flash went right out the window with this one snarky remark. He might as well just blame the users for choosing a Mac in the first place...

Non-technical responses, lots of dodging and hand-waving, saying things are a smokescreen without rebutting direct points. Very, very bad move for Adobe. Why would they want to get into a pissing contest with Apple and let Jobs control the conversation?

&#62; Mr. Murray likens the Apple-Adobe fight to that between reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin<p>... at that point I stopped and wondered why I am reading this crap.

A terrible title. This will drift right past the front page. I was going to use "Adobe CEO disagrees with Steve Jobs".

Here is my question on the open spec part of flash: "Which non-Adobe flash client can be used to play videos on Hulu?". I think the answer is none because of threats made by Adobe.

Ben Horowitz had a post yesterday about founding CEOs vs professional CEOs(<a href="http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/" rel="nofollow">http://bhorowitz.com/2010/04/28/why-we-prefer-founding-ceos/</a>). This seems to be almost a perfect example of his point. The founding CEO makes a technical argument about why change is needed and the professional CEO defends his companies current position.

It completely lags any credibility when a hired gun debate with an innovator and founder. Wish he would have waited till he actually had something to say.

This maybe a little of topic but I was reading TUAW and and some one commented that today Apple stock gained and Adobe stock fell. I googled it to check myself and I find it really amusing.

I really wonder about the personal relationship and history between Jobs and Adobe's current exec. I also wonder if anything that happened during the NeXT years affected his thinking (e.g. Display Postscript).