The Jobs' Mob received a sudden and deeply unpleasant wake up call this morning as Adobe released its sales figures.
Apple, in an alliance with its chums in the US tech press, has been screaming to the world+dog that Adobe, and its Flash plug-in is on its way out.
Jobs has been talking to media companies trying to convince them that Flash is about to be replaced by HTML 5.
This flew in the face of reality which had Flash being used by nearly every computer in the world with an internet connection. But Steve Jobs made the pronouncement so the US IT press said it must be true. Except it wasn't.
In fact Adobe claims it has not seen any impact from the dispute with Apple.
Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen told Reuters that Adobe's Creative Suite 5 software line, which includes Flash programs, was selling better than Creative Suite 4.
The outfit's revenue rose 34 percent from a year earlier to $943 million during the fiscal second quarter ended June 4, handily beating the average analyst forecast of $906 million.
Adobe also forecast current-quarter revenue ahead of Wall Street projections.
So how can an outfit which has been cursed by Steve Jobs and his IT press cronies be actually doing so well?
The problem is that Steve is a magician when it comes to media manipulation. He has managed to use it to convince people that a netbook without a keyboard is a pretty neat idea, particularly if it costs punters more than three times what it cost Steve to build it.
In the case of Adobe, Steve has been trying to convince the world that black is white and no amount of spinning of reality can change the universe that much. It is a fact that Adobe is doing quite well and Flash is on most of the world's PCs.
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That's funny! Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well? How can you say they have seen no impact, that's ridiculous...Did you miss the news today that Apple has now sold three million ipads, if you did don't worry maybe you'll catch the 4 million notice in about 20 more days? You don't think that Adobe lost some revenue from not being on any of those or the new Iphone? Gimme a break!
Who's really the one spinning here, you or Jobs...
Steve Jobs
Sent from my iPhone.
The Wizarding World of Hairy iPadders is for Hippogits.
Hairy Jobs is in denial!
Coo, coo, ca-choo gives me the Weezers.
What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson?
Jiltin' Jobs has left and gone away_
Well,__
(Hey, hey, hey...hey, hey, hey)
Laugh about it, shout about it!
When you've got to choose__
Ev'ry way you look at it, you lose.
Yeah, that's you in the Mugglednet
giving the world a flying finger touch, Mr. Jobs. The Half-Made iPad is your lame concepted attempt to Steampunk the known world with a Deathly Hollows novelty, which awkwardly seems to be the next trend in Apple's Speculative Friction.
The Dark Lord Condescending...
Poor little Jobsie, woh ho
The Screen Genie lives on its back
The Screen Genie loves chimney stacks
It's outrageous,
he screams and he bawls
Screen Genie let yourself gall oh
He's so simple minded
he can't drive his module
He bites on the neon and
sleeps in the capsule
Loves to be loved,
loves to be loved
Woh ho
Woh ho ho
Heaven holds a place
for those who prey
Radcliffe told MTV News:
"I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before.
Is it big in England yet?"
Bloody yes and Cobblers!
and everything tastes nice!
So I'm not sure how you can extrapolate from CS sales, that Apple's undeniable success in the mobile market, coupled with ostracizing Flash from that platform, hasn't hurt Adobe.
I'm not a fan of either. A pox on both their monopolistic houses.