Apple has a long relationship with Adobe. In fact, we met Adobe’s founders when they were in their proverbial garage. Apple was their first big customer, adopting their Postscript language for our new Laserwriter printer. Apple invested in Adobe and owned around 20% of the company for many years. The two companies worked closely together to pioneer desktop publishing and there were many good times. Since that golden era, the companies have grown apart. Apple went through its near death experience, and Adobe was drawn to the corporate market with their Acrobat products. Today the two companies still work together to serve their joint creative customers–Mac users buy around half of Adobe’s Creative Suite products–but beyond that there are few joint interests.

I wanted to jot down some of our thoughts on Adobe’s Flash products so that customers and critics may better understand why we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. Adobe has characterized our decision as being primarily business driven–they say we want to protect our App Store–but in reality it is based on technology issues. Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain. Read more…

The internet has opened up multiple windows for the welfare of mankind. Not only we are now able to access any site at just our fingertips, we can also get the product or service of our preference instantly. Not only it has helped us, the users, the web has proven to be equally beneficial for online business owners who can brand their products well, distribute them in real time and earn great margins. Therefore, having a user-friendly and easily navigable site has become a necessary part of any online business activity. Website developers have understood this fact well and hence they leave no stone unturned while developing websites for their clients. They develop websites based on the most reliable web platforms so that clients are satisfied. Flash is one of the heavily used web site design platforms that’s used on a large scale globally by designers. The number of independent flash web site design solution providers has also increased significantly currently. Read more…