Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirms unofficial armistice with Jobs, Apple

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Walt Mossberg during an interview that the dispute between Adobe and Apple over Flash is a thing of the past. Adobe and Steve Jobs went head to head last year when the Apple CEO publicly criticized the multimedia company and banned apps that were created using third-party tools, like Adobe Flash. The heated exchange was covered extensively by the press.

It took several months, but the dispute was finally resolved when Apple reversed its decision on third-party compilers and now lets developers use them to create apps. Though the press continues to bring up this dispute, it's unofficially over as far as Narayen is concerned.

Narayen also confirmed that Adobe is supportive of HTML 5, the standard Apple has chosen for web video and multimedia on the iPad and iPhone. "We welcome the evolution to HTML5, and are actively contributing to it." says Narayen. This is good news to iOS owners who won't have to worry about Flash draining their batteries and slowing their browsers to a crawl.

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sip

Well, someone must have been looking up the numbers -- iOS made up 80% of mobile devices accessing video on the web. You can't scoff at those sorts of numbers.

June 03 2011 at 7:27 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

dayjntt

Narayan you're a cow-ard

June 03 2011 at 6:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dayjntt

Narayen eat your flash

June 03 2011 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dayjntt

Narayan eat your Flsh

June 03 2011 at 6:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dayjntt

Narayanen eat your flash!

June 03 2011 at 6:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ThomasO

And who cares if Adobe gives up or not? That whole thing made me so mad, I have stopped upgrading my annual contribution to adobe for photoshop upgrades and I'm actively testing other products.

arrgh...

June 03 2011 at 3:25 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Reply

Michael Long

"... the dispute between Adobe and Apple over Flash is a thing of the past."

Yeah, that's why Flash runs just fine under Mobile Safari...

Wait.

June 03 2011 at 3:20 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

Buzz Mega

About time those two buried whatever hatchets were flying. Adobe never would have gotten as big as fast without Apple/Jobs, and Apple/Jobs have a much brighter future handshaking than fist shaking.

Now Adobe: About that price structure you guys think so much of. N, n, n, n, n! For instance: Photoshop Extended. $300 more than the regular Photoshop. Start there. Just ship Extended. No more regular Photoshop. No increased price. I thought you guys would have realized this by now, but no.

As one of your beta testers, I gotta tell you that the business model for high priced, disk-distributed software is soooo Yesterday.

June 03 2011 at 3:09 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply

Jeff

Flash polluting Android devices? Really? There was almost an objective TUAW article. Almost

June 03 2011 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Reply

Nini

Meh, I read Narayen's words as "Yeah, Apple ain't blinkin', we're calling it quits" and capitulated in a way which doesn't make them seem like they lost face.

June 03 2011 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down Reply