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Apple's newest vice president: Bozo or rising star?
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Lynch defending Flash. Click for video.
FORTUNE -- The news that Apple (AAPL) has hired Kevin Lynch, formerly Adobe's (ADBE) chief technology officer, to be its new vice president of technology, has sparked something of a civil war among Apple partisans.
Wired's Steve Levy called Lynch a "star."
Daring Fireball's John Gruber called him a "bad hire" and a "bozo."
"Now we find out," tweeted Dave Winer, not entirely in jest, "if Gruber secretly runs Apple."
So who is Kevin Lynch?
As AppleInsider's Daniel Eran Dilger points out, he's a seasoned software team leader who could help fill the vacuum created with the departure last fall of Scott Forstall.
Lynch also has deep roots at Apple. He worked at General Magic with Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld from the original Mac team, and at Macromedia with Apple marketing VP Phil Schiller and Randy Ubillos, creator of Apple's iMovie and Final Cut Pro. His personal webpage lists among the heroes that inspired him Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Jobs.
But Lynch is perhaps best known for his public tussle with Jobs in 2010 over Apple's decision not to support Adobe Flash on the iPhone and iPad. Lynch made several videos during that period that he probably now regrets, but they give you a rare chance to see an Apple vice president close up.
Star or bozo? Judge for yourself:
From AllThingsD: Lynch defending Flash
From AllThingsD: Lynch defending Creative Suite 5
From YouTube: Lynch running over an iPhone with a steamroller
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Adobe CTO: Android will run majority of smartphones by Spring
Also mobile broadband will surpass wireline speeds in the next three years or so.
If you think Gartner and IDC are bullish on Android, talk to Adobe (ADBE) CTO Kevin Lynch for a few minutes. In an interview on Monday, Lynch told Fortune that he believes that Android's growth will continue to blow past the industry and will make up 50% of the smartphone market within the next six months.
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Seth Weintraub - Nov 10, 2010 1:41 PM ET -
Today in Tech
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Paul Rademacher, maker of "the first true Web 2.0 application," is leaving Google. Rademacher, an engineering manager for Google Maps, made his name with HousingMaps.com, which mashed up Google Maps with Craigslist data. (TechWhack)
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 3, 2010 8:13 AM ET
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How to see Flash on an iPhone
Skyfire CEO Jeffrey Glueck explains how his newly approved browser works
The Skyfire browser, which has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times on Google (GOOG) Android devices, has just been approved as an application for Apple's (AAPL) App Store. It goes on sale at 9 a.m. EDT Thursday for $2.99.
The app gets around Apple's restrictions against Adobe (ADBE) Flash by converting Flash videos into an HTML5 format suitable for viewing MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 2, 2010 1:57 PM ETPosted in: Adobe, Adobe Flash, App Store, Apple, Flash, HTML5, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Jeffrey Glueck, Michael Copeland, Skyfire -
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Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
Surprise, naysayers! Microsoft posted a record first quarter: $5.41 billion in earnings and $16.2 billion in revenue -- in particular, sales were up 25%. CFO Peter Klein said in a statement that it was an exceptional MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 29, 2010 8:11 AM ET -
Flash on Android beats HTML5 on Android or iOS?
Adobe says that their Flash Mobile app is not only faster than HTML5 but it also uses less power.
Adobe Blogger John Nack posts a video today comparing Flash 10.1 and HTML5 on the eight month old Nexus One and then compares it with the just-released iPod touch which runs the same processor as the iPhone 4. The original tests can be seen here (and I've run them and got similar MORE
Seth Weintraub - Sep 18, 2010 4:22 PM ET -
Adobe on Apple: Our glass is half full
Flash apps are already getting approved, but there's still no Flash in the mobile browser
Confusion reigned for much of Thursday following Apple's (AAPL) announcement that it was lifting its restrictions on development tools for iPhone apps.
Wall Street, assuming that this meant that Adobe (ADBE) has won its long-running Flash battle with Steve Jobs, drove the company's stock price sharply higher. Adobe closed the day at $32.86, up $3.55 (12.11%).
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 10, 2010 7:31 AM ET -
Why did Apple lift its ban on apps written in Flash?
Steve Jobs once called Flash the No. 1 reason his devices crash. What changed his mind?
With a terse, five-paragraph statement issued Thursday morning, Apple (AAPL) reversed a five-month-old policy that had sparked an industry-wide debate, a government probe and tens of thousands of words of heated commentary -- including Steve Jobs' own April 2010 "Thoughts on Flash."
The newly inoperative policy had prohibited software developers from using cross-platform tools when MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 9, 2010 10:24 AM ET -
India's $35 Android tablet for developing world
Prices could drop to an absurd $10-$20 when these hit scale.
Today, India's human resource development minister, Kapil Sibal, unveiled a $35 tablet computer that will run Linux. Although it wasn't specified, the device he displayed had the familiar notification icons of Android, seen to the right. Android, is a Linux OS built for smartphones and now tablets by Google under an Open Source license.
"This is our answer to MIT's $100 MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 23, 2010 3:44 PM ET -
The Google Phone is dead
Google stopped selling its Nexus One smartphone today, ending an era and leaving its Froyo OS in limbo.
Google last week warned that it was getting its last shipment of Nexus One phones in and true to its word, the store has now stopped selling the Nexus One smartphone today.
The stoppage presents a particularly interesting problem for Google. They no longer sell a device that runs Android 2.2 (Froyo). All of the carrier MORE
Seth Weintraub - Jul 21, 2010 11:57 AM ET
