Unnamed sources reportedly tell blogger that the Mac maker is to receive legal fire from the creators of Flash soon

Apr 14, 2010 13:37 GMT  ·  By

A blogger dealing mostly with security issues cites unnamed sources to claim that Adobe is planning a legal attack on Apple over the latter’s decision to block the use of Flash Professional to create iPhone apps.

Using "sjvn" as a screen name, the blogger writes for ITWorld, part of the IDG Network. He predicts that the issue will "blow up in Apple's face," claiming that "sources close to Adobe" say the Flash maker "will be suing Apple within a few weeks."

“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,” the blogger stresses. “Sources close to Adobe tell me that Adobe will be suing Apple within a few weeks,” his post reveals. Although it remains to be seen on what grounds this alleged suing will take place, the blogger goes to inform what exactly ticked off Adobe lately. Evidently, it was Apple’s recent policy change concerning the iPhone SDK. “…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,” sjvn writes.

Not long after the information became public, one of Adobe’s staffers wrote a blog post where he downright insulted the Mac makers for their decision to rule out this method of creating iPhone applications. Lee Brimelow, an Adobe platform evangelist, said “Go screw yourself Apple.” Apple pundit John Gruber soon followed with a post of his own to calm spirits down, explaining why Apple needed to move in this direction. While visibly defending Apple, a company notorious for playing by its own rules, his argument is strong.

Even so, ITWorld’s blogger believes that, “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,” he concludes.