Timeline: Adobe versus Apple

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Ludwig said: “It looks like Apple is continuing to impose restrictions on their devices that limit both content publishers and consumers. Unlike many other ebook readers using the ePub file format, consumers will not be able to access ePub content with Apple's DRM technology on devices made by other manufacturers. And without Flash support, iPad users will not be able to access the full range of web content, including over 70 per cent of games and 75 per cent of video on the web.”

Off-hand comments by Steve Jobs post event land on the pages of Wired magazine. Jobs calls Adobe “buggy” and the company “lazy” for not fixing its problems, according to Wired. Jobs claims the world is moving to HTML 5.

Adrian Ludwig from Adobe responds to Jobs' HTML comments, calling HTML 5 a “red herring” used by Apple.

In turn, Adobe employee Mark Doherty responds to the iPad in a blog post titled “iPad – Full Internet My Ass.”

February 2010: Adobe chief technology officer Kevin Lynch responds on Adobe’s blog to the missing Flash Player on Apple devices.

Lynch says: “We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.”

Days later, Adobe apologises for a serious bug in Flash Player that existed for over 16 months.

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