Apple CEO, Steve jobs has posted a extraordinary, lengthy article about his feelings towards Flash. It’s surprising that Jobs feels the need to attack another companies product this publicly. If you are a Flash developer it’s pretty grim reading, with Jobs claiming Flash is not a “modern” technology and has no place on mobile devices:

New open standards created in the mobile 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.

While he provides a number of plausible sounding reasons, it is important to note that he does not reveal his business motivations. Adobe’s Flash exporter would have meant it would have been very easy to target multiple mobile devices thus losening the Apple developer stranglehold. Flash and Air would have also posed a significant threat to the lucrative App store. Finally the fact the he throws around words like “propriety” and “openness” around with no sense of irony, means his reality distortion field is clearly cranked up to 11.

View Steve’s thoughts on Flash