Steve Jobs: Adobe is Lazy, Google's 'Don't be Evil' Motto is BS

You must not own a Mac. The fact that one of the major features of Snow Leopard (10.6) was that browser plug-ins are now sandboxed (for the sole purpose of preventing Flash from tanking the whole browser) is evidence enough of why Flash should not be ported to iPhone/iPad. I know I'm in the minority in thinking on this, but Adobe can't write a decent Flash port to save their life. When it was in Macromedia's hands, it was pretty stable. Flash 7 was the last decently stable version on the Mac platform. Personally, I'd like to see Flash opened as an open standard, such that other people with decent coding ability might be able to implement a plugin that doesn't crash within 30 seconds of loading. As for other Adobe products, consider the once great partnership Adobe/Apple had. Adobe always released it's premier versions on the Mac. They started focusing on Windows development, and kept their code in Carbon, despite STRONG pushes from Apple to the entire development community that Carbon was only a stop-gap for porting existing apps to OS X from OS 9. 10 years later, and they still haven't done the re-write in Cocoa, and now we have a situation where 64-bit access is not possible, since Apple basically stopped supporting Carbon beyond 32-bit instructions. Even Microsoft has re-written Office for Mac in Cocoa. Adobe's programmers should start focusing on speed and stability rather than re-writing UI features every release and adding more bloat. Oh, and port the damned thing to Cocoa, so you can finally have 64 bit compilation. (I can think of few more worthy apps for hogging memory than Adobe products.)

As for your second point, the only affected model of new iMac is specifically the 27" Quad Core i7, and the problem actually exists with the video processor. Yup -- parts are, from time to time, problematic on any platform. That Apple has so few models and is the point of blame for any products on the mac platform insists that a big spotlight is shined whenever something like this happens. Apple has had problems with other products in the past. So has Dell, HP, and others. But, the fact remains, report after report shows that OVERALL Apple is by and large more reliable hardware than other manufactures, which honestly, I kind of find strange. After all, the whole industry makes parts from parts bins and a handful of Chinese companies manufacture most of the parts that go inside our computers.