Earlier this week, the New York Observer blasted Conde Nast – and, in particular, Scott Dadich, the company’s executive editor of digital magazine development – for the “stalling out” of the company’s much-touted strategy to transition its properties from print to the iPad. When that strategy was first proposed, though, Dadich was seen as a “savior” to the company – at least according to the hagiographic portrayal by…the Observer. But to truy judge the success or failures of the Conde Nast iPad strategy one must first look through the prism of the significant part that Adobe has played alongside.

We first noted that Dale Robertson was quoted as saying that he had never seen racial slurs at a Tea Party event, even though he had been photographed holding one. Robertson then alleged that the photo must have been faked, although our expert disagreed. Since posting that article, however, numerous sources have contacted me with admissions by Robertson that the photo is real. After the jump, an arsenal of smoking guns.

Analysis

Last week we reported on a photograph of self-proclaimed Tea Pary founder Dale Robertson holding a sign featuring a racist (and misspelled) slur. In an exclusive interview with Mediaite, Robertson claims that the sign had been digitally altered. Mediaite’s own Philip Bump, an expert on Photoshop takes an in-depth analysis of the claim of forgery.

I saw the Sport Illustrated demo video long before the iPad was released. It was everything the iPad should have been on Day One. A mind-blowing demonstration of what the future of the magazine could be. The problem is, the iPad cannot do what the demo shows and it should have. Flash is the only current technology that would make that possible.