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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