Will Adobe Fire Back At Steve Jobs' Flash Criticism?

In an open letter, today Steve Jobs wrote on the reasons Apple has chosen to block Flash from the iPhone OS (which covers both iPad and iPhone, if you didn't know). So far, there has been no Adobe response, and we wonder if there will be.

Adobe has already announced that development on the cross-compiler they included in CS5 would end. There would be no further work on it, which seems to point to Adobe simply giving up on the idea of self-contained Flash apps on the iPhone.

Nothing Steve Jobs said in his open letter today was new. Apple had basically said everything before. It was, however, interesting that Jobs felt it was necessary for the Apple CEO to comment personally on the matter.

Here are the six reasons that Steve Jobs gave as issues that exist with Flash:

• Lack of Openness (Flash is proprietary)
• Lack of support for Flash doesn't hurt end users all that much, as there are plenty of ways around those grey boxes on sites using Flash
• Reliability, security and performance (Flash is buggy)
• Flash is not designed for Touch format
• Flash kills battery life
• Adobe's attempt to create Flash apps is bad for consumers

Pretty much all of those criticisms above just lay waiting for Adobe to respond. All of those points can be argued against, and although Adobe probably won't respond on its website directly to this, it's possible still they might come out with their own press release.

More likely, one of Adobe's tech gurus will respond via one of their blogs. While always noting that these blogs are not necessarily the opinion of Adobe itself, it's pretty clear that much of what these Adobe engineers say would probably ring true within Adobe.

* See What Steve Jobs Said About Adobe and Flash

Written by Michael Santo
HULIQ.com

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