Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: We’re Going To Make The Best Tools In The World For HTML5
5/06/2010 12:56:00 AM
kenmouse
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One of of today’s keynote speakers at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco is Adobe exec Kevin Lynch, who serves as the company’s CTO and SVP, Experience & Technology Organization. The keynote talk is a timely one — Adobe has been in the headlines over the last few weeks as it spars a public battle with Apple. Lynch sat down with Web 2.0 Expo SF program chair Brady Forrest. My live notes about the conversation are below.Q: How is Adobe going to react to HTML5?
A: I wouldn’t say reacting to HTML5. We see whatever people are using to express themselves. … We’re going to make great tooling for HTML5. We’re going to make the best tools in the world for HTML 5.
We’re facing a time where there are some where you wnat to wall off parts of the web and need to have approval. I don’t think that’s the role of a company. Apple is playing this strategy where they want to create a walled garden. But look at the iPhone helicopter we just saw — why should I only be able to use an iPhone for that? Why can’t you do that with any phone? If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People were using different gauged rails. Your cars would literally not run on those rails. That’s counter to the web. The rails now are forcing people to write for a particular OS, which has a high cost to switch.
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