We know Apple and Adobe are not on good terms but in business, there are no lifelong enemies.

Since Apple dropped Flash and opted for HTML5 in iPhone and iPad OS, Adobe has gone for a tit-for-tat by withdrawing investments on all iPhone app development in Flash.

However, there is a good chance that the two companies could collaborate again with Adobe’s new flash player dubbed ‘Gala’.

This latest flash player will harness H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3 which is good for a Mac user. If you installed the right graphics card, your flash playback will be smoother. Your browser won’t take off but at least it won’t run like a snail.

I don’t know when iPhone will start using Flash, if ever; but at least Mac users can now watch Youtube without consuming all their RAM and CPU.

[Engadget]

I know Apple and Adobe aren’t on good terms but didn’t realize the battle has gone over to the dark side.

When Steve Jobs demonstrated an iPad at Wednesday’s tablet event, its Safari browser clearly did not support Flash. Adobe has published a blog post calling Flash the Apple iPad’s “broken link.”

And now Adobe’s platform evangelist Lee Brimelow has compiled an illustrative montage (partly screengrabbed above) in an effort to illustrate what the lack of Flash means for the iPad.

[Wired]

So Adobe has raised a serious question here… why would anyone want to buy a web surfing gadget which can’t display porn? Can’t imagine people giving up porn just because the gadget possess superior design, apps or functionality.

I hate to say this but porn really drives a lot of consumer technology innovation. What do you guys think?