Apple's opposition to Adobe Flash technology can lead to reduced sales of Flash-related products. This allows Adobe in its latest quarterly report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Under the heading "Risk Factors" writes Adobe that the company's business will be hurt by the fact that there are new third-party products and platforms, such as the Apple iPhone and iPad, where the company's solutions are not offered. Adobe believes this makes it harder for the company's products deliver, and that its customers are persuaded to use alternative technologies.
The whole thing is primarily intended to inform investors about market conditions that may adversely affect the company's results. It is not stated how much risk the Adobe believes this is, but that iPhone and iPad actually pulled out in the report, the vague sensation.
Meanwhile word of the dispute between Apple and Adobe. Lee Brimelow, an Adobe employee entitled platform evangelist with a focus on developing communities of Flahs, Flex and AIR, has written a rather angry blog post about Apple's latest move which prevents Flash developers to create applications for iPhone OS. It's about the limitations of the language and framework that can be used.
Brimelow has under pressure from his employer removed parts of the post. In addition, he has been asked to emphasize that the post is his personal and not the company.
The post ended with "Go screw yourself Apple", as well as a comment on why readers can not comment on the post:
«Comments disabled as I'm not interested in hearing from the Cupertino Comment spam bots."
