Andre Yoskowitz
14 Apr 2010 22:50
According to an ITWorld report, Adobe is on the verge of suing Apple, as the two companies continue to battle over Apple's strong rejection of Flash support on their devices.
The report cites "sources close to Adobe" when saying a lawsuit is in the works in the coming weeks.
Over the course of a few months, the niceties between the two companies has broken down, with Apple practically saying Flash is not good enough to be on the iPad and one Adobe developer going as far as to tell Apple to screw itself.
Officially, Adobe is keeping mum on the subject and says it is still creating a Packager for iPhone OS tech, although it has almost been completely banned by Apple thanks to new SDK language which bans cross-platform compilers as the one launched with Adobe Creative Suite 5. Not just targeting Adobe, the new SDK language also blocks Microsoft Silverlight.
Over 70 percent of current videos online use Flash and over 96 percent of all computers currently have the Flash plug-in installed in their browser of choice.