50% profit increase for Apple & Steve Jobs criticises Google and Adobe
Apple has announced a 50% increase in profits mainly due to iPhone sales doubling from one year ago.
The increase in profits makes the current quarter Apple's best in the company's 34 year history. Apple saw revenues for the three months (including Christmas), rise to $15.68bn, which is an increase of 32% from the year prior.
The recent success lays squarely with the popularity of the iPhone which has opned up sales into the world's largest mobile phone market, China.
Apple's future looks bright with forecasts for the following quarter looking healthy so what better time to send criticism to your neighbours?
According to an attendee of a recent Apple event where Jobs spoke publicly, Jobs stated that the reason there recently released iPad did not support Adobe Flash was due to Adobe's laziness. Jobs believes this laziness leads to inferior products and that Adobe has potential but fell far short of it. Sounds like a classic high school report card.
Jobs goes further to state that Flash is far too buggy to support and that the market will eventually move away from Flash.
He didn't stop there, next on the hit list was Google. Jobs belief is that Google entered the mobile industry with Nexus One to cause the iPhone to fail. However, he made it clear that this will not happen and that they plan to release iPhone updates so rapidly that they will eclipse the updates to Google Andriod. Time will tell.
