IT World在本週引述消息來源報導指出，Adobe打算在數週內控告蘋果。
IT World並未提及Adobe可能控告蘋果所持的理由，但分析最後一根稻草應是蘋果於新的開發人員協議中明確規定開發人員不得使用跨平台的編譯器撰寫iPhone應用程式，這等於扼殺了Flash應用程式在App Store中現身的機會。
Adobe與蘋果的爭議始於蘋果剛推出iPhone之際，當時蘋果執行長Steve Jobs公開表示Adobe Flash桌面版效能太慢，而行動版則功能不足，因此不打算讓iPhone支援Flash。Jobs的言論一度引爆雙方的口水戰，隨後Adobe妥協於 iPhone的市佔率並宣佈將與蘋果合作開發支援iPhone的Flash Player。
直到現在iPhone平台仍未直接支援Flash，而且支援iPhone的Flash Player亦未現身。取而代之的是Adobe去年宣佈將在Adobe Flash Professional CS5中支援iPhone應用程式的開發，利用跨平台編譯器將Flash程式轉為iPhone程式，CS5已於本週一（4/12）出爐，然而蘋果新的開發人員協議卻封鎖了跨平台編譯器的使用。
Adobe技術長Kevin Lynch曾在今年2月呼籲蘋果應該要開放內容及應用程式的存取，指出針對智慧型手機所發表的Flash Player 10.1已支援Google Android、RIM黑莓機、Nokia及Palm手機，卻獨缺蘋果裝置。
Lynch表示，App Store中已有多種以Flash技術打造的應用程式，而且同樣的解決方案也適用於iPad。此外，Adobe已準備好一旦蘋果允許就能讓蘋果行動裝置的瀏覽器執行Flash，但迄今尚未得到蘋果的協助。
Adobe平台推廣者Lee Brimelow更在新版開發人員協議出爐後，以個人名義撰寫了一篇文章，並以「Go screw yourself Apple」等強烈字眼表達對蘋果的不滿。Brimelow指責蘋果的新政策意味著蘋果對開發人員的獨裁控制，而且挾持開發人員以對抗Adobe，同時影響Adobe及其他技術。（編譯/陳曉莉）
Adobe vs. Apple is going to get uglier
You think things are bad now between Apple and Adobe? Just wait until the lawsuit.
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April 12, 2010, 05:36 PM —
Usually I write about security here, but Apple's iron-bound determination to keep Adobe Flash out of any iWhatever device is about to blow up in Apple's face. Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks.
It was bad enough when Apple said, in effect, that Adobe Flash wasn't good enough to be allowed on the iPad. But the final straw was when Apple changed its iPhone SDK (software development kit) license so that developers may not submit programs to Apple that use cross-platform compilers.
Officially, Adobe's not talking about such actions, but there's no question that Adobe is ticked off big time at Apple. I mean how often in print does one company representative say about a former partner, "Go screw yourself Apple," as Lee Brimelow, an Adobe platform evangelist, did on his personal Web site, The Flash Blog. While Adobe had him retract some of his words, and the blog now has a big disclaimer, "[Adobe would like me to make it clear that the opinions below are not the official views of the company and are entirely my own.]" we can be sure that within Adobe's offices far stronger words were used to describe Apple's attitude towards Flash.
For now, Adobe spokesperson Wiebke Lips maintains that "We are aware of the new SDK language and are looking into it. We continue to develop our Packager for iPhone OS technology, which we plan to debut in Flash CS5." Flash CS5, which is part of Adobe Creative Suite 5, arrived on April 12th, but, at this point, it can't be used to create i-device applications.
Indeed, the net effect of Apple's licensing change, according to John Gruber of Daring Fireball, is to make it impossible to use cross-compilers, such as the Flash-to-iPhone compiler in Adobe's upcoming Flash Professional CS5 release. This also bans apps compiled using MonoTouch -- a tool that compiles C# and .NET apps to the iPhone." In other words, Adobe, Microsoft, not only can you not have Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight running natively on an iPod Touch, iPhone, or iPad, you can also forget about creating an iWhatever program that can get around that requirement.
Adobe, the king of Internet video with 95% Web browser market penetration, is not one bit happy about being locked out of Apple's lucrative mobile device market. Novell's MonoTouch group is "reaching out to Apple for clarification on their intention, and believe there is plenty of room for course-correction prior to the final release of the 4.0 SDK." Adobe, which doesn't want to let go of its hold on Internet-based video, isn't anything like as optimistic.
So, unless things change drastically between Apple and Adobe in the next few weeks, from what I'm hearing you can expect to see Adobe taking Apple to court over the issue. It's not going to be pretty.
