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Adobe Responds

So Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch has responded to Apple's statement today. I was kind of hoping for a little more of a roadmap and some glimmer into the personal responsibility Adobe is taking in this feud. However, it does make sense that Adobe isn't going to sit there and list the issues that need to be addressed with its own product. It was good in the sense that they are moving forward, they know what needs to be done, they are looking to other manufacturers to invest their resources, but leaving an open door to Apple. Once again I think they are taking the high road.

After thinking of my post yesterday, I sort of solidified a number if issues in my head with the whole debate. The argument is very subjective and there are a number of people that feel strongly either way about this. However, I've been happy to see that a large majority of people that have problems with Flash still believe that it isn't right to mandate their mobile experience. Adobe would be smart to really latch on to this principle and they already have. The people tired of Flash crashing and only thinking of the banners will clearly side with Apple on this. But not everyone has had a stellar experience with the iPhone, and as loyal as I have been to Apple I am one of those people. I can put my frustration with the lack of Flash aside, and still see that it isn't the product it should be. Apple needs to place more weight on the concept of the 2 year contract and their hardware decisions. I know this is a bit of a sidebar to the issue at hand, but there is some strange disconnect between complaining about Flash performance on low power platforms and not keeping your hardware spec current with what is leading edge mobile technology. Regardless, I'm looking forward to seeing where mobile technology and tablet technology goes from here and what we'll see from Adobe.

UPDATE: Hector found a couple of interesting videos showing some benchmark testing from my previous post. One of which I found quite interesting.