And the saga continues. If you read my post Adobe vs. Apple or Flash vs. HTML5 from a few days ago, you already know that Apple and Adobe appear locked in a battle over Flash and the iPhone OS. It's clear Apple wasn't planning on backing down and it's certainly not in Adobe's best interests to continue the fight.
It should come as no surprise that Adobe is walking away. Mike Chambers, the Principal Product Manager for developer relations for the Flash Platform at Adobe (that's how he lists it on his blog), has said as much in his blog post, On Adobe, Flash CS5 and iPhone Applications.
He starts out with the clause from Apple that started this all, noting that developers can expect to see their Flash-developed applications slowly get booted from the iTunes store. However, Adobe has already built the export features into Flash CS5 that allows developers to target iPhones and iPads and plans to ship the software with those features still intact, even if Apple still blocks acceptance of applications built with that technology.
Instead, he claims that Adobe and Google have been working together to target Android phones and Android-based tablets with Flash 10.1. In short, all the work you have already done as a Flash developer to target the iPhone OS can simply be brought over to the Android OS. He provides links to some developers who are already making the switch, targeting Android now instead of iPhone.
There are some links in the blog post which I am including here. Since Apple has been silent on this entire dust-upand the general trend has been that Apple's licensing enforcement (both for app content and programming language) is arbitrary, I can't really offer counter-links or even counter-arguments. It also justifies my cheating and just parroting links from the original blog post.
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