Adobe¹ has posted a short response to the letter Apple boss Steve Jobs has written about Flash technology.

对于苹果老板史蒂夫·乔布斯关于苹果产品禁用Flash的公开信，Adobe公司做出简短的回应。

Adobe will concentrate on Android and other devices.

In it, Adobe said the legal terms Apple imposed on（利用，欺骗） software developers had led it to shift its focus away from Apple.

Mr Jobs used the open letter to defend Apple's decision not to allow Flash on many of the firm's products.

In it he criticised Flash, saying it was not fit for an era of smartphones and touchscreen devices.

Critical stance

Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief technology officer, wrote in a blog posting: "We feel confident that were Apple and Adobe to work together as we are with a number of other partners, we could provide a terrific（极好的，非常的） experience with Flash on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch."

Currently, none of these products can run the Flash technology which is used on many websites to power media players, games and other animations²（动画片） .

However, added Mr Lynch, Adobe has decided³ to shift its focus to get Flash working well on gadgets⁴（小配件， 小工具） made by Google, RIM⁵, Palm, Microsoft, Nokia and others.

He said Adobe expected to release Flash Player 10.1 on Google's Android operating system in May and then for it to be on general release in June.

"From that point on," he wrote, "an ever increasing number and variety of powerful, Flash-enabled devices will be arriving which we hope will provide a great landscape of choice."

The letter came soon after Adobe announced it would stop making tools that allow developers to quickly translate Flash code to run on Apple gadgets.

These allowed developers to make applications once and then distribute them for use on various phones and operating systems, including Apple's iPhone.

Adobe's announcement followed a change to the terms and conditions of the licence that software developers must sign when writing code to run on Apple products.

That change banned developers from using automatic translation tools, effectively forcing them to develop two applications - one for Apple products and one for everything else.