CNBC was the first to report that the Chief Technology Officer for Adobe, Kevin Lynch, is stepping down from his position in order to take a new role in Apple. Later a document submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission confirmed that Lynch is leaving the company, which he had joined back in 2005. The document also revealed that Lynch has submitted his resignation on Monday, March 18th “to pursue other opportunities.”Afterwards, Adobe released the following statement about Lynch:
“Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, is leaving the company effective March 22 to take a position at Apple. We will not be replacing the CTO position; responsibility for technology development lies with our business unit heads under the leadership of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. Bryan Lamkin, who has recently returned to Adobe, will assume responsibilities for cross company research and technology initiatives as well as Corporate Development. We wish Kevin well in this new chapter of his career.”
Lynch will soon join Apple and take up the position of VP of Technology at the company. The former CTO has played a very important role in the progress of Adobe during his stay at the company. Given that he was the one who actually inspired the company to enter into the web publishing by launching Creative Cloud and spreading it out to multiple screens. However, in the past Lynch had also exchanged blows with Apple over Adobe’s Flash Player, after the Cupertino-based company publicly said that Flash was not a fit for its operating system (iOS). In response to this bold statement from Apple, Lynch defended Flash in a post on the company’s blog three years ago in which he described how the ball was in California-based tech giant’s court to include the Flash in its devices:
“So, what about Flash running on Apple devices? We have shown that Flash technology is starting to work on these devices today by enabling standalone applications for the iPhone to be built on Flash. In fact, some of these apps are already available in the Apple App Store such as FickleBlox and Chroma Circuit. This same solution will work on the iPad as well. We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.”
Nevertheless, it seems that Apple is more concerned about its cloud services rather than Lynch’s three years old post. Perhaps that is why the tech giant has decided to bring him in, so Lynch could help Apple end its struggles with the iCloud services and make it perfect just the way he did it in Adobe.
Source: iPhoneinCanada, TheVerge, TechCrunch
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