Jobs call BS on Google, says that Adobe is lazy.

I saw a tweet last week which said “Sometimes I wonder if Google’s ‘don’t be evil’ is missing ‘because we’re watching you’”. Funny (actually, no, it’s terrifying when you think hard about it). Maybe someone should ask Eric?

Another friend of mine asked whether you could really trust an organisation that had to remind itself not to be evil…

Anyway, His Jobsness is having none of it, calling out the ‘Don’t be evil’ mantra as ‘bullshit’. (There are – at this time – a couple of disputed quotes. He may have said ‘load of crap’).

He sticks a skewer in Adobe too. Lazy? Well, given their dominance over the past decade, maybe they’ve been sluggish to capitalise on that and do now face a number of threats: Silverlight, closed systems like iP* (my new mnemonic for iPhone/iPod/iPad), and maybe HTML5 (but we’ll see how that turns out).

Compare that with the rapid cadence of Silverlight.

As an aside, looks like Google circumvented the AppStore stuff with Google Voice by using HTML5 in the browser. Tsk. They also added Voice to their own Chrome browser, but there’s not much opportunity to use it in other browsers as there’s no API. That’s not very ‘open’ is it? But then, as we know, Open has some interesting definitions from Google.

Seems to me that a lot of folk made a lot of money in the last decade doing their own thing. But now they’re all trying to do the “other folks’ things” and so the drums are beating to quarters once again. A fun time to be in technology – but then when isn’t - and an interesting ride for a few years.