The California company hired Kevin Lynch, one of the great defenders of the technology that Steve Jobs criticized
The California-based Apple has hired one of the big supporters of Flash technology, a system that the late Steve Jobs lashed out and blamed on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch on the grounds that it was not up to these mobile devices.
The company Adobe Systems today announced the departure of Kevin Lynch, who on Monday resigned as chief technology officer for the company, according to All Things Digital confirmed, make the jump to Apple where you will have an executive under the shadow of Bob Mansfield, vice president of technology development.
Lynch seeks “other opportunities”, as explained in the statement of Adobe which indicates that his departure will take effect next March 22.
In Apple, Lynch will coordinate the work of teams of software and hardware.
The signing of the bitten apple company contrasts with the apparent differences between Jobs and Lynch, who led the response to the attacks of Adobe Apple to its popular Flash technology.
“Flash was originally designed for tablets 15 years before that market was ready to take off,” Lynch wrote in February 2010 on the official Adobe blog in which stressed the “great experience” that provides consumers with the system that Apple rejected.
“We have not had the required cooperation from Apple (to enable Flash in the browser on iPhone, iPad and iPod),” said Lynch.
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In April of that year, Steve Jobs finally decided to expose their views openly on Flash.
“Flash was created during the PC era, but the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interface and open Web standards, all these, areas where Flash falls short,” Jobs said, they blamed the use of Flash to be the main cause of that crash a Mac
Lynch branded Apple’s decision to block Flash from “bad for consumers” and “protectionist”.
