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Adobe quits attempts for flash on the iphone and ipad

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Adobe has finally called it quits on its attempts to get Adobe Flash on the Apple iphone and the new Apple ipad. Many developers have been hoping that Adobe would get it together to get Adobe Flash on the Apple iphone. But we have learned over the years that Adobe CEO Steve Jobs has his reasons for not allowing Adobe Flash on the iphone. There are many reasons why Adobe has made this decision and one might be that Apple changed its Developer Program License Agreement. This now states all Apple applications must be  originally written in Objective-C , C , or C++ .   So what does this mean for Adobe Flash on mobile web sites?  Well Adobe is still working on Adobe Flash for other platforms such Google Android. But Apple is a large portion of the mobile market share and developers can not ignore this fact. Apple CEO Steve Jobs wants the web to switch from Adobe Flash for media on the web and to HTML 5. This fight between Apple and Adobe has not ended and might very well escalate. Adobe has been hinting at legal action.