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Apple looks ahead by ditching Flash

Feb 4, 2010
Apple's hugely popular devices don't run Adobe Flash, which is causing tension between the two companies. Why would apple shun Flash? Commentator Farhad Manjoo offers a few ideas.

Apple, Adobe at war over iPad

Feb 4, 2010
Apple's new iPad tablet has touched off a fight with Adobe over the new technology's exclusion of Flash software, a snub that started with the iPhone. Are the two brawlers evenly matched? Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.
Workers apply the Apple logo to the exterior of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in preparation for an Apple special event in San Francisco, Calif. -- January 26, 2010
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