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You may also like this one: http://i.imgur.com/WhwlV.jpg

Foxtrot did an similar gag: http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2010/03/21/

Saw something similar on Comixed last month:

http://comixed.com/2010/04/28/4-koma-comic-strip-flash-plug-...

I saw this other version earlier this morning http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/3442940/img/Anonymous/Ap...

We love not being a monopoly...except when it comes to hardware.

We love touch screens...yes, we know Flash works on touchscreens. Don't wanna look up any of that pesky evidence.

We love building open-source products...but we also like to build closed app stores and accept/deny apps based on a myriad of reasons. In fact, it's so bad Opera had to use public opinion with a web-based timer to pressure us to accept it.

We love HTML5...but would prefer you used apps, because we "always have an app" for that.

We love giving the customers the best experience...but we'll pull out the red herring and help you understand the error of your ways.

We love that we don't charge an arm and a leg for software...just hardware.

I was about to post how sick I am of seeing these ridiculous rebuttals but this actually made me laugh.

We 'block' Adobe

Brilliant!

Oddly enough, I got this email directly from Apple today: http://skitch.com/timdorr/dd1ie/the-all-new-adobe-creative-s...

Split brain marketing departments are hilarious.

Why is this being voted up?

We lego Adobe?

That's a symbol that represents an unrecognized object (on Safari?). Say if Flash weren't available on your browser, you'd see that.

Poor attempt at a pun.

I see them on the iPhone but actually I've never seen one on iPad. My guess is they just show nothing instead of making it look like something's missing.

There was an early iPad video on Apple's site that showed the lego icon while browsing a website (which they later edited), so it was there at least initially.

Apparently Apple eliminated the icons to make it less obvious that their browsers weren't displaying all of a site's content.

Someone has hacked together a way for sites to override that behavior: http://www.gskinner.com/blog/archives/2010/04/return_of_the_...

We leggo Adobe

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