Tài liệu The Adobe-Apple controversy heats up

Some vendors — most notably, Apple — have
taken a hard line regarding Adobe Flash and
won’t allow it onto their platforms, period.
Although the iPhone and iPad are themselves
no paragons of openness, Apple’s participation
in the HTML5 initiative is meant to bring
interoperability and rich media to those devices
without requiring Apple to support (or use) Flash
technology. Apple’s exclusion of Flash from
its products has led to speculation and rumor
that HTML5 is “in” and Flash is “out.” Adobe,
as you can imagine, hasn’t responded warmly
to Apple’s exclusion of Flash, and the resulting
negative attention to the Flash product lead to a
media feud between Apple and Adobe. Adobe
plans to release a mobile device version of
Flash in late 2010 to prove that Flash is here to
stay.
The insults and finger pointing from Apple and
Adobe in flashy (pun intended) press conferences
and slickly worded public relations
memos don’t seem to presage an end to the
Adobe-Apple debacle anytime soon. Both
companies make relevant points, but whatever
eventually happens, we would like to point out
that such companies exist to make money selling
proprietary products.
This situation leaves us lacking something we
desperately want: legitimately installed Flash on
an iPhone or iPad. Perhaps we can get some
help from the Feds. (Or maybe Adobe and Apple
can settle this in Judge Judy’s court or on a
reality TV show where the victor is granted The
Future of the Web award.) Okay, these are all
terrible ideas, but you get the point. It’s a difficult,
tricky situation with no immediate consumer
gains in sight