Steve Jobs visits Wall Street Journal, trashes Flash again

February 19th, 2010 SilvesterHoward

Filed under: Internet Tools , Steve Jobs , iPad Valleywag reports that during a recent iPad -promoting visit to the offices of the Wall Street Journal , Steve Jobs spent a significant amount of time trash-talking Adobe Flash yet again, and doing his best to get the Journal to move away from what he called “old technology.” Just like Jobs’s comments during the recent Apple Town…


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