Adobe and Apple’s ongoing spat over the lack of Flash on iPhone and iPad really doesn’t look like it’s going to simmer down any time soon. Now an Adobe employee has taken to an official blog to call Apple (and Steve Jobs in particular) out over its policy of nods, winks and whispers…
Steve Jobs has been attacking Adobe and Flash a lot recently. He apparently told the Wall Street Journal that Adobe Flash is a “CPU hog”, gave it a kicking at the New York Times and slammed it and Google at an Apple internal meeting.
John Dowdell of Adobe is not impressed with all these rumoured slights. He took to his official Adobe blog to list the ways he wants Apple to change. First up was a call for Steve Jobs to acknowledge which comments he actually made: “Put your rep on the line with attributed statements. The lack of confirmation…about rumoured quotes from The Great Man is telling.”
We’re not sure Dowdell really gets how Apple works. All that mystery is what keeps people interested and builds up all that hype. That goes for the Apple controlled leaks which a former marketing executive says Jobs favours. Dowdell wants Apple to “stop relying on ‘inside sources’ to float trial balloons.”
Dowdell’s blog post is just the latest volley from Adobe in its fight against Jobs’s Flash slams. It has previously bigged up its programme to allow developers to convert Flash apps for the iPhone and noted how many users want iPhone Flash support.
Are you getting bored of this battle between Apple and Adobe? Or are you not bothered about Flash finding its way to the iPad and iPhone?
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