And one of the things it's picky about is not offering an easy way for competitors to get in on the action. The bigger issue with Flash is that Apple, leveraging the power it has through the immense range of applications available in the App Store, can afford to be picky. Apple is willing to inflict some short-term pain to achieve what it thinks is a better future-take for example its willingness to scrap the floppy drive when the original iMac arrived, or its relatively swift software transition from PowerPC-based Macs to Intel-based Macs. Oh, OK, so Apple is just looking out for its users, then?Ĭertainly Apple cares a great deal about the user experience, not just by offering refined and carefully thought-out user interfaces, but also by screening out any number of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch applications it doesn't like from its App Store. One of the big ones, as John Gruber points out in a post that Jobs lauded, is that applications built with cross-platform tools often have a generic look rather than fitting in with the native style. Using this intermediate layer causes complications, though.
Apple isn't happy with how Flash performs on Macs-but neither is Adobe, and it's working to speed up Flash, presumably with added urgency given the current state of affairs.
On Mac OS X, for now at least, people are free to download Flash Player, and most of them do. Those applications, in turn give Apple a reliable group of customers who often are willing to pay premium prices.
Adobe's cash cow, its Creative Suite of products including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash Pro, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Dreamweaver, is popular on the Mac, especially the design applications. And after what each side has said about the other, some kind of Flash partnership would have to overcome some ill will on top of the usual technical, strategic, and legal obstacles.īut the days when big computing companies don't have some cooperation as well as competition are long gone, and Apple and Adobe have a symbiotic relationship overall. No doubt there's plenty of fuming among Adobe personnel who saw Apple kill a project-especially so late into its development. So Apple and Adobe hate each other's guts?
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