While many of us are familiar with the teeny little cube informing us that we've ended up at a Flash-based site on our iPhones, it appears that Apple's intransigence on the software plug-in has irked Adobe.

Go to Adobe's site on your phone to download Flash and you'll get this tight-lipped message:

Despite an announcement at the beginning of the year that Apple and Adobe were going to attempt working together to bring some form of Flash to the iPhone, nothing on the horizon seems to suggest this is any closer to happening. While Steve Jobs thinks full-fledged Flash is too bloated for the iPhone and Flash Lite is too wimpy, no one seems to be talking much about his desired "missing product in the middle."

It's unlikely that Adobe's passive aggressive message is likely to have much of an effect, but it is a nice reminder of where to put the blame for this particular lack on the iPhone.