Kyle Wagner of Gizmodo wrote in 2011 that 'Adobe was never really able to smooth over performance, battery, and security issues'. Mike Isaac of Wired wrote in 2011 that 'In testing of multiple Flash-compatible devices, choppiness and browser crashes were common', and a former Adobe employee stated 'Flash is a resource hog It's a battery drain, and it's unreliable on mobile web browsers'. Ryan Lawler of TechCrunch wrote in 2012 'Jobs was right', adding Android users had poor experiences with watching Flash content and interactive Flash experiences were 'often wonky or didn't perform well, even on high-powered phones'.

Retrospectively, more publications have agreed with Jobs. Dan Rayburn of Business Insider accused Steve Jobs of lying, particularly the sentiment that most content on the Internet is available in a different format.

John Sullivan of Ars Technica agreed with Jobs, but highlighted the hypocrisy in his reasoning, writing: 'every criticism he makes of Adobe's proprietary approach applies equally to Apple'.

Wired 's Brian Chen had in a 2009 article claimed Apple would not allow Flash on the iPhone for business reasons, due to the technology being able to divert users away from the App Store. Various publications had different opinions on the topic. He further fired back at Apple, stating that computer crashes were due to Apple's operating system, and that allegations of battery drain were 'patently false'. In response to Jobs' accusations, Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen described the open letter as an 'extraordinary attack', and, during an interview with The Wall Street Journal, called the problems mentioned by Jobs' 'really a smokescreen'. Jobs dismissed the idea that Apple customers are missing out by being sold devices without Flash compatibility by quoting a number of statistics, concluding with 'Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content.' Response He touched on the idea of Flash being 'open', claiming 'by almost any definition, Flash is a closed system'. He cited the rapid energy consumption, computer crashes, poor performance on mobile devices, abysmal security, lack of touch support, and desire to avoid 'a third party layer of software coming between the platform and the developer'. On April 29, 2010, Steve Jobs, the co-founder and then-chief executive officer of Apple Inc., published an open letter called 'Thoughts on Flash' explaining why Apple would not allow Flash on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

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