I've been using Adobe products for over a decade. When Photoshop got "web effects" (like "rollovers") …I 'oooo'd' and 'ahhh'd' …and when InDesign burst onto the desktop publishing scene (stealing everything it knows about layout from Quark Xpress), I didn't even hold that against it---and use it to this day. Not to mention my love for Illustrator.

But when it comes to Flash, I'm with Apple.

Let's not forget that Flash was not originally an Adobe product. It was acquired when Adobe bought out its competition: Macromedia. I never liked Macromedia. People raved about Flash and Dreamweaver. Adobe LiveMotion and Adobe GoLive were far superior and Adobe caved to popular opinion. (I still refuse to use Dreamweaver, and use GoLive instead).

But what really causes me to say, "Really Adobe? Really??" is when they lash back at Steve Jobs by invoking the now-cliche "walled garden" objection to Apple's App Store.

This is pure BS.

Adobe, and its idiot blogger employees, keep referencing idealistic 'access-to-the-web-should-be-free' arguments in their defense of their crappy software, and as an attack on Apple. I'm sorry, that is just stupid.

Apple's App Store is not, repeat: NOT, access to "the Web." If you want to view hypertext markup on a computer, there is nothing Apple, Microsoft, Google, President Obama or the Pope can do to stop you. The web has reached evolutionary self-perpetuation. It's like what that pervy character on Jurassic Park said when the scientists were all like, 'We made them all female …there's no way they can breed in the wild.' He was like 'Nature will find a way' …all ominous and foreshadowing-like. Well, that's the state of the internet today. Apart from a complete and total, global power grid collapse, the internet will be accessed somehow someway.

This, however, does not preclude companies from selling you different vehicles by which you may metaphorically drive on the information superhighway. As long as there is a "highway" there will be mid-sized sedan companies (Microsoft IE), there will be car-sharing services (Mozilla Firefox), there will be luxury sports car companies (Apple Safari), and there will be tree-hugging hybrids (Google Chrome).

Apple's App Store is not a browser. Apple's App Store is a shopping center for applications that run on its mobile platform: iPhoneOS. Companies have been creating platforms for developers (and their own development tools for their own platform) since personal computing started (largely thanks to Apple no less).

Why should Apple let just anyone put just any code on its platform? Who is Adobe to demand such access? Has Adobe its own operating system? Has Adobe its own mobile devices? No, and no. It is a software developer. And if you want to develop software for Apple's platform, you have to use Apple's development tools. It's their call to make and they've made it. Now stop whining like the spoiled brats you are and get to learning Cocoa you pampered nerds.