Long Roads Ahead: Adobe and Flash Today
According to Steve Jobs, HTML5 is the future of video on the internet. Though it is hard to determine right now if he is right, his decision to block out Adobe Flash support from Apple products is slowly taking its toll on the developer of the most famous digital image and video editing software in the world.
For many, the fact that the iPad, the iPhone and the iPod Touch lack Adobe Flash support is a problem for Apple and Apple users. In that sense, it is Apple that lacks the necessary content support needed by users. In application, this means that browsing many websites on the iPad touch screen tablet will result in many pages appearing with large empty gaps in spaces where Flash content should be.
Many are already resigned to the fact that Apple devices will not have Flash support; however, the recently released iPhone OS 4.0 SDK License Agreement is making a severe blow towards Adobe. According to the agreement, developers may no longer use third party software like the Flash compiler. This has rendered Flash Professional CS5 as unusable and in turn, has discouraged many developers from purchasing the software.
According to reports, Adobe’s shares have gone down by 3.6 percent.
Naturally, the folks at Adobe have plenty of work to do in order to keep Flash as the standard of web video and to meet the many demands of the internet. While many do not believe Steve Jobs’ claim that Flash is too slow, they still have to meet Steve Jobs’ requirements if Flash is ever to be supported by Apple.
Some people have stated that the reason for Jobs’ dislike of Adobe stems from the company’s decision to support Microsoft instead of Apple several years ago.
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