Most of what makes a good party is who's there. Sometimes a party's better without certain people, just like you've got to make sure your marquee attendees don't leave early. Finally, when the jerks show up, you throw them out.

You think it's easy thinking up a metaphor that ties three Apple stories together? It's not.

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen sent a decidedly mixed message in . Out of one side of his mouth, Narayen said his company's feud with Apple was sooo 2010, while out of the other he reiterated the argument and said that the iPad would lose to Android-based tablets. This feud may not be as hot as a laptop running Flash, but it's not over yet, either.

Narayen tried to say it was "fairly clear" that the reason Flash wasn't on iOS was not because of the technology, but because of Apple's App Store business model.