Steve Jobs continues to make things difficult for Abdobe Flash by Zuzana Zelenakova

More obstacles in the way for Abdobe Flash. Steve Jobs continues to wage his quiet war against Abdobe Systems Inc´s Flash player as Apple Inc announced Friday it will no longer pre-install the multimedia platform on Mac computers. It is not the case of iPhone and iPad, from which Flash was banned. Users will still be able to download and install Flash player themselves. It was quite a rare situation when Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs issued an open letter in April 2010 detailing the reasons why the company banned the Flash player onto the iPhone. "Flash was created during the PC era--for PCs and mice," Jobs said in the letter. "New open standards created in the mo! bile era, such as HTML5, will win on mobile devices (and PCs too). Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind." He also criticized Flash for reducing battery power and posing security risks. "Flash is the No. 1 reason Macs crash," Jobs said. Apple annouced the news concerning the Flash player upon launching an updated version of its MacBook Air laptop that is being shipped without the Flash software as will be all Mac computers in the future. "We're happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe," said Apple spokesman Bill Evans mainly due to the fact that Flash is update very often and Apple simply wants the customers to have the latest version. Abdobe responded only through a short-spoken statement: "As always, Adobe recommends that users download the most up to ! date version of Adobe Flash Player from Adobe.com."

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