Jobs Tells WSJ to Ditch Flash for the iPad

Several days after the iPad announcement, Jobs sat down with WSJ staff on the third floor of the News Corp building in New York as part of a broader media tour. During the meeting Jobs reportedly told the paper to drop Flash for the iPad, according to Gawker.com report.

Jobs was brazen in his dismissal of Flash, people familiar with the meeting tell us. He repeated what he said at an Apple Town Hall recently, that Flash crashes Macs and is buggy.

But he also called Flash a "CPU hog," a source of "security holes" and, in perhaps the most grevious insult an famous innovator can utter, a dying technology. Jobs said of Flash, "We don't spend a lot of energy on old technology."


Jobs compared Flash to other obsolete systems Apple got people to ditch....
- like the floppy drive, famously absent in iMac,
- old data ports, including even Apple's own FireWire 400, gone from iPods and now all Macbooks,
- CCFL backlit LCD screens, now entirely replaced in Apple's lineup by LED-powered screens (except for this). (Correction: We originally said Apple replaced LCDs with LEDs; LEDs are a type of LCD backlighting.)
- and even the CD, with Jobs apparently crediting Apple's iPod, iTunes Store, CD-ripping software and "Rip, Mix, Burn" campaign with doing in the old music medium (sort of: though CD sales are in free fall, around 300 million were sold last year in the U.S. alone, 80 percent of all albums).

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