At the Web 2.0 Summit, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen called attention to the ongoing battle between Adobe and Apple. “There’s a war happening for developers; there’s a war to try to get the best applications for a particular platform and to keep that lead,” he said.
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“Adobe’s always been about helping people create content for multiple different devices and multiple platforms and bringing the power of that rich media, so I think Apple and Adobe are on different sides of this struggle for control,” Narayen added. In contrast, “Apple would like to create a closed and proprietary system, for developers to make applications that only work on ‘i’ devices, and continue to just operate on ‘i’ devices.”