{"id":742581,"date":"2013-03-20T07:47:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=387447"},"modified":"2013-03-20T07:47:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T11:47:46","slug":"apples-hire-of-prominent-adobe-flash-defender-draws-rebukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742581","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s hire of prominent Adobe Flash defender draws rebukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/apple-adobe-executive-hiring-criticism-387447\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/apple-logo-wp.jpg?w=650&#038;h=434&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C434\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple Adobe Executive\" title=\"Apple\" \/><\/a><\/center>It's been nearly three years since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/hotnews\/thoughts-on-flash\/\">Steve Jobs wrote his famous takedown of Adobe's Flash platform<\/a>\u00a0as a battery-draining, Mac-crashing, insecure mess. Since that time, Jobs has largely been proven right since the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/12\/07\/as-adobe-flash-fades-from-mobile-phones-html5-adoption-already-exploding\/\">mobile industry has moved on from Flash as a video platform in favor of HTML5<\/a>, the open-source alternative that Jobs predicted would \"win on mobile devices\" going forward. All of this makes it somewhat surprising that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=aapl\">AAPL<\/a>) has decided to hire former Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch as\u00a0a vice president of technology, especially because Lynch was one of Flash's most prominent public defenders during Adobe's spat with Jobs.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/20\/apple-adobe-executive-hiring-criticism-387447\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/DOG_oV1B214\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly three years since Steve Jobs wrote his famous takedown of Adobe&#8217;s Flash platform\u00a0as a battery-draining, Mac-crashing, insecure mess. Since that time, Jobs has largely been proven right since the mobile industry has moved on from Flash as a video platform in favor of HTML5, the open-source alternative that Jobs predicted would &#8220;win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37b7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}