Steve Jobs and post-iPad town hall meeting notes
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 10:01AM
Christine Chan Following the great (or not so great) iPad announcement, Steve Jobs held a town hall meeting with Apple employees late last week. The two main topics of discussion were Google and Adobe.
Regarding Google, Jobs confirms of the heated competition between the companies.
"We did not enter the search business," Jobs said. "They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them."
As far as the lack of Flash support, Jobs claims that the Flash implementation in Macs is buggy and won't support it in the iPhone or iPad.
"Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it's because of Flash. No one will be using Flash," Jobs said. "The world is moving to HTML5."
Some other key points of interest regarding the town hall meeting:
- Apple will deliver aggressive updates to iPhone that Android/Google won't be able to keep up with
- iPad is up there with the iPhone and Mac as the most important products Jobs has been a part of
- Regarding the Lala acquisition, Apple was interested in bringing those people into the iTunes team
- Next iPhone coming is an A+ update
- New Macs for 2010 are going to take Apple to the next level
- Blu-Ray software is a mess, and Apple will wait until sales really start to take off before implementing it.



