Adobe iPhone Plans Officially Terminated, for Good This Time [Adobe Not Interested in Apple’s iPhone Anymore; The Grapes Must Be Sour]

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In case you own an iPhone and/or iPad you must surely be following all the Flash-related drama between Apple and Adobe. Apple doesn’t want to support Flash and Adobe is clearly pissed at Cupertino for that matter. Adobe has tried everything so far but it looks like nothing really works when it comes to changing the mind of Apple executives.

And finally Adobe has acknowledged that there’s no point offering support for Flash applications to be ported to the iPhone and the iPad. The grapes are really sour since Apple will not change its mind in the foreseeable future.

Mike Chambers, project manager for Adobe Flash, said that Adobe will not continue to invest in Flash-related technology for iPhone and iPad apps. Sure the latest Creative Suite Adobe announced last week, CS5, will still offer the feature although it will be pretty useless considering Apple’s latest revisions to the iPhone OS developer agreement.

He also went on to say that Apple has intentionally targeted Adobe with the recent changes and that developers that have Flash-based applications in the App Store should be ready to have them removed in the near future. But, just to be fair, Apple also targeted Microsoft’s Sliverlight and Sun’s Java. That means you can’t use any of these programming tools to design any iPhone applications anymore as the change was made public a few weeks ago when iPhone OS 4.0 was unveiled.

On a different note, Adobe is still going to offer Flash 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.0 to other mobile operating systems. But we already knew that Adobe will bring Flash to other mobile platforms including Android, BlackBerry and webOS, later this year.

The App Store is growing more and more each day so it would seem that developers don’t really need Flash to come up with more and more applications, do they? Not that Apple has any excuse for limiting the creativity of developers to such extent! What do you say, developers, do you need Flash for your iPhone/iPad apps?

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