[ Thanks to sjvn for this
link. ]
“Steve Jobs anti-Adobe Flash rant is really quite a
remarkable document both for what it says, and what it doesn’t say.“First, and foremost, there’s the fact that Jobs spends most of
his time complaining about the Flash format and ignoring the real
beef Adobe has with Apple. Sure Adobe doesn’t like that Apple won’t
let Adobe Flash on its iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch platforms. But,
that’s not what has Adobe executives ticked off to the point that
they’re telling Apple to go screw themselves and that they’re
quietly considering suing Apple.“No, what has Adobe ticked off is that Apple changed its iPhone
SDK (software development kit) license so that developers couldn’t
even submit programs to Apple that use cross-platform compilers.
This blocks all Adobe developers from creating applications for the
iDevice family. Worst still, Adobe had just finished building its
latest master suite of graphic, document and Web development tools,
Adobe Creative Suite 5, which included tools to port applications
to the iPhone and all the rest. I don’t think you can blame Adobe
for being a wee bit annoyed.”