The press consider this to be a fight between Apple and Adobe, and that Apple “abused its position”. Many quieter, less obtrusive developers and some ex-Adobe employees (some quoted at the very bottom of the stories about the “Apple-Adobe War”) agree with Jobs about Flash.
It is all merely a war of words, most of which are coming from the press and bloggers. As R. Crumb’s Mr. Natural would say, “Don’t mean shee-it.”
Someone who can afford to shell out $75K to develop an iPhone app can probably raise half as much (or more) to develop an Android or other version, if the iPhone app is successful. The rest of us who measure our development efforts with iPhone apps in terms of months of personal work are not even going to consider other versions unless we strike it rich with our iPhone apps. And corporations that want to utilize the iPhone or iPad should consider HTML5 for Web services, rather than native apps.
See my article “Apple and Adobe: What Would Mr. Natural Say?” on my blog, Bove’s Blips.
