I’ve seen comments that say iPhone should add Flash support and think surely they’re missing the point. Wouldn’t it be great if Flash wasn’t installed with Mac OS X?
And now Adobe Flash ads hijacking the clipboard.
That said, this isn’t really that much of a security issue, just a major annoyance. It’s not like these Flash ads are submitting the contents of my clipboard to someone. Now that would be a cool and dangerous demo.
Here’s a fairly extensive comparison of Acorn, DrawIt and Pixelmator.
But the reason I’m posting is an odd thought occurred to me.
I wonder if Steve Jobs called Adobe and said:
See? This is what happens when you wait years to come to Mac OS X, break with every update, and then drag your feet at going universal. We create a whole @#$%ing Photoshop construction kit right in our OS. How do you like that, huh?
We could go even further. We could say this wasn’t a phone call, but a face-to-face meeting at Apple. And we could go even further, and say that while the meeting was going on Steve arranged for the Adobe rep’s car to be towed, and for him to be tarred and feathered as he left the building.
But, no, probably not. The Photoshop construction kit in Mac OS X Tiger is probably the sweetest revenge.
(With maybe just a hint of car towing.)