Early last year, Steve Jobs released his infamous Thoughts on Flash open letter to the world, starting an ensuing slap-fight between Apple and Adobe that still runs hot and cold to this very day. As part of the dust-up, Apple disallowed the use of Flash as a tool for iOS development, and in the process, removed much of the value from Adobe's Flash Packager software--a program geared very much towards the development of Flash-based smartphone applications. A few months later, Apple reversed their verdict on Flash-free development, thereby welcoming Adobe's Flash Packager and the developers who loved it back into the fold. With this being the case, it should come as a surprise to no one that Adobe plans to include support for the iPad development in the next iteration of the software.
Set to be released with Adobe's upcoming Creative Suite 6 software suite, the updated version of Flash Packager, which is said to also provide support for a wide variety of Android devices as well, will include the ability to package applications developed using Adobe Flash for export into software compatible with Apple's iPad. While Adobe has yet to announce a release date for CS 6, we can only image that there are a lot of developers out there waiting with bated breath for word on the suite's availability.
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