Just a few hours after Steve Jobs posted a public letter expressing his opinion on why Apple restricted Flash applications from iPhone OS 4, Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO, responded in an exclusive Wall Street Journal interview. Narayen said that Adobe believes in open content. He said that their Creative Suite software was designed to work on multiple devices and that Apple’s “recent behavior shows that they are concerned about Adobe being able” to provide this product that works across multiple platforms. Narayan talked about Adobe “certainly” shipping on Android’s latest version. He said that it is an “incredibly productive time” for Adobe and discussed Creative Suite 5, saying that Adobe’s “innovation is blowing people away.”.
The technology problems that Jobs mentioned in his letter are “really a smokescreen,” Narayan said. More than 100 applications that used Adobe’s software were accepted in the App Store. “When you resort to licensing language” to restrict this sort of development, he said, it has “nothing to do with technology”. Speaking about Adobe being the No. 1 cause of Mac crashes, Narayan said if Adobe crashes Apple, that actually has something “to do with the Apple operating system”. On Flash draining battery power, he called the claim “patently false”.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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