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Why Adobe shouldn't give a $&*# about Apple

Despite Apple's public denouncement of Flash, its creator is about to have a banner year

By JP Mangalindan, reporter

Steve Jobs may have written his paean to the public, explaining why he feels it's time to leave Adobe's Flash to the dustbin of history, but the relegation seems premature. In fact, the record shows that consumers have been overlooking the lack of Flash support on Apple's mobile device for years. MORE

26% of Web video is now iPad-ready

Up from 10% four months ago, according to a new survey

How's Steve Jobs' campaign against Adobe (ADBE) Flash progressing? The bar chart at right offers one measure.

It comes from Mefeedia, a media search website that indexes video from a wide variety of sources -- from CBS and ABC to YouTube and Hulu, some 30,000 sources in all.

From time to time Mefeedia analyzes its index to look for trends. One of MORE

Adobe has make or break Flash opportunity on Android

For all of the whooping and hollering between Apple and Adobe over the past few months, what really counts is how Flash performs on a smartphone.  We'll find out that answer next week when Froyo is released.

At next week's Google I/O summit, Google will take the wraps off of Froyo, the next version of its Android OS.  It will likely be available to Nexus One owners first who will be MORE

Techmate: Is Apple trying to kill Adobe?

In the latest episode of Techmate, Jon and Michael analyze the ongoing war between Apple (AAPL) and Adobe (ADBE) plus a surprise appearance by Hello Kitty.

Robert Reich comes to Apple's defense

Apple isn't the problem, says Bill Clinton's Secretary of Labor. Big banks are the problem.

"Why is the Federal Trade Commission threatening Apple with a possible lawsuit for abusing its economic power, but not even raising an eyebrow about the huge and growing economic (and political) muscle of JP Morgan Chase or any of the other four remaining giant banks on Wall Street?"

So begins a spirited defense of MORE

U.S. vs. Apple: Who would win?

Shades of the United States vs. Microsoft, an antitrust case that the government lost

A report in Monday's New York Post that two government agencies -- the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice -- are each considering launching an antitrust investigation against Apple (AAPL) puts me in mind of the case the DOJ and 20 states brought against Microsoft (MSFT) nearly a dozen years ago.

To many observers -- including MORE

Apple vs. Adobe: Is Flash dying?

The stats seem to support Steve Jobs' contention that Adobe's video format is fading fast

In the Thoughts on Flash essay that Steve Jobs posted last week, Apple's CEO took on Adobe's oft-repeated contention that Apple's (AAPL) mobile products -- the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch -- don't offer access to the "full Web" because they don't support Adobe's Flash format. 75% of the video on the Web, Adobe's supporters point MORE

Steve Jobs' Flash manifesto

Apple's CEO responds to Adobe with a 1,700-word essay "Thoughts on Flash"

"Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain."

So begins the meat of Steve Jobs' essay on Adobe (ADBE) Flash -- the first extended piece of writing we've seen from Apple's (AAPL) CEO since his Thoughts on Music in Feb. 2007 and A Greener MORE

Has Steve Jobs gone mad?

Or is he trying to ensure that Apple apps continue to "just work?" A guide to the latest flap

The hottest topic in tech these days -- and the lead item all weekend in Techmeme -- is an obscure clause in Apple's (AAPL) latest Developer Program License Agreement, the document programmers must conform to if they want to be part of the bonanza that is the iTunes App Store (185,000 apps MORE

Why Is Steve Jobs Flash-obsessed?

Accounts of his anti-Adobe rants raise questions about what really motivates them

I have no doubt that Steve Jobs is at least partially sincere when he complains to his staff and the gossipy editors at the Wall Street Journal about Flash, the multimedia platform Apple pointedly refuses to support on the iPhone, the iPod touch and the forthcoming iPad tablet computer.

With his penchant for simplicity and elegance, Jobs may very well MORE