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"Adobe Systems took out newspaper advertisements today and posted an open letter to Apple accusing the company of stifling competition.  The advertisements appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times."
 
Adobe has fired back at Apple.  Not just accusing Apple of stifling competition, but questioning if Steve Jobs is trying to control the Web.

We're taking a look at reaction to Adobe's open letter, and if it hit the mark. 

First to the ad itself.  Which starts with — "We (Heart) Apple."

"We love Flash and HTML5. We love our 3 million developers. We love authoring code only once. We love all platforms and devices. What we don't love is anybody taking away your freedom to choose what you create, how you create it, and what you experience on the Web."

Engadget says, not only is this not love, it's more war.

"So, it's clear this issue isn't going to die out any time soon, and it's also clear that Adobe is going to go to great lengths to defend and protect its cash-cow. Of course, if they really want this message to hit home to the core iPad and iPhone users out there, they're going to need to run that ad in HTML5."

The Wall Street Journal's Alan Murray says this isn't really a letter to — us — either.

"The key sentence here is we love our three million developers.  It's the developer community they're speaking to here.  This fight between Apple and Adobe is a pain in the neck for developers.  Developers would like to be able to develop products that can work on multiple platforms.  And these separate platforms make it more difficult."

Altimeter Group's Michael Gartenberg tells Computerworld, Adobe is fighting the wrong fight.

"All the talk of 'open' and 'closed' doesn't matter. That might be of interest in the coffee houses of Silicon Valley, but we've moved beyond the point where the tech-savvy insiders make market decisions. The mass market makes the decisions."

But Wired's Geek-to-Geek says, don't count Adobe out just yet in this fight.

"Winner: This is a tough one, but considering that anyone can code a Flash player now — including Apple — and Apple’s own restrictions on developers for its own app platform, the edge in this round goes to Adobe."


So what do you think?  Apple?  Adobe?  Or would you rather we all just got along?

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