Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch posted a brief reply about the break-up with Apple over Flash.
His post follows Steve Jobs’ lengthy public letter “Thoughts on Flash” where Apple’s CEO said that despite a “golden era” the companies had “grown apart.”
Lynch titles his 200-word reply “Moving Forward,” and while he does say that if the companies had managed to work it out, Adobe could have provided a “terrific experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch,” they’re not down with the legal terms Apple imposed on developers.
So they’re pairing with more amenable partners, namely “working to bring Flash Player and AIR to all the other major participants in the mobile ecosystem, including Google, RIM, Palm (soon to be HP), Microsoft, Nokia and others.”
They aren’t wasting any time: Flash 10.1 for Android will be launched to the general public in June, Lynch says he hopes that will lead to an increase in Flash-enabled devices which could provide a “great landscape of choice.”
Via BBC
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