Well, this is just a
huge surprise. In response to our not entirely glowing
review of the JooJoo, Adobe's PR team has gotten in touch to inform us that Fusion Garage "has no direct relationship with Adobe." Citing the young startup's non-participation in the
Open Screen Project and use of "a public beta release [of
Flash] designed only for desktop use," Adobe is drawing a thick line between itself and the JooJoo, and urges us to instead look at the alternatives from its partners like HP, Dell and Lenovo. Mind you, not one of those companies is (
as yet) selling a competing tablet, and it's not like there's some magical formula that will make 720p Flash video run smoothly on a bare Atom CPU (remember,
Ion GPU acceleration is
not yet available for the Linux-based JooJoo), but who are we to stand in the way of a carefully worded damage limitation statement? Click past the break for the entire thing.
JooJoo has no direct relationship with Adobe and has not worked with us as other manufacturers have to ensure a great Flash experience. By attempting to use a public beta release designed only for desktop use, we're not surprised by the lackluster performance and disappointing browsing experience.
Silicon and device platforms from companies who have worked with Adobe as part of the Open Screen Project are setting the bar for a great Flash experience on this exciting device category and we encourage you to check out devices from Dell, HP, Lenovo and other partners.
posted April 9th 2010 8:12AM
That's very Appleish
Note to Steve Jobs: Buy Adobe and fix it.
Never a big flash user myself....90% of my time is starring at a SSH session using VI to maintain software written while Carter was in office....ha ha....However,
My wife was complaining about how "slow" here machine was -- 10 years ago I would have taken that as a challenge and went and built her a new one.....But since I am lazy and old, I went and purchased a new "fancy" pre-built computer with multiple cores, 4 gigs of memory, etc, etc, etc. And guess what -- she is still having epic struggles to keep the cows fed and the crops plowed.....and I am the bad guy :(
Do we really think that these new fangled portable devices starpped with mininal CPU's, RAM and screen real estate, can succesfully and happily run a crappy plugin that brings a state of the art desktop to it's knees....simply trying to run a basic "game" that (from what I could tell) --- did not provide even nearly as many graphics and bells and whistles as Warcraft 2 did on my Pentium 120 with 32 Megs of memory in 1995?
I think if anything, the JooJoo has called Adobe's bluff. As much as I hate to say it....(cause I am not a big apple fan) -- it really makes Mr. Jobs look like he knew what he was talking about in defending his companies decision to not invite Flash to the Iparty.
Sent from my HP 200LX