Adobe has begun a print and web advertising campaign to criticize Apple's refusal to allow Flash on its iPhone / iPad OS, expressed on Steve Jobs' letter.
Adobe has begun a print and web advertising campaign to criticize Apple's refusal to allow Flash on its iPhone / iPad OS, expressed on Steve Jobs' letter.
The campaign includes an open letter and an explanation on the subject, below's screen shot, and other considerations.
Chuck Geschke, an Adobe founder and chairman of the board, said yesterday in a radio interview that all this is "an effort by Steve Jobs to control the iPhone's operating system and marketplace."
More politely, the two co-founders of Adobe wrote on their letter:
"We believe that Apple, by taking the opposite approach, has taken a step that could undermine this next chapter of the web — the chapter in which mobile devices outnumber computers, any individual can be a publisher, and content is accessed anywhere and at any time.
In the end, we believe the question is really this: Who controls the World Wide Web? And we believe the answer is: nobody — and everybody, but certainly not a single company."
And here is a video with the reactions.
It seems that this fight is not going to be settle anytime soon.