Previously it had bundled the plug-in with the operating system, and maintained it by issuing its own security updates for the Adobe program.Īt the time, Apple argued that yanking Flash from OS X was a security move.
Last October, Apple dropped Flash from Mac OS X. The two have been at loggerheads since Apple refused to allow Flash on its iPhone in 2007, but the dispute grew heated last year as the companies traded blows over Flash content on Apple's iOS mobile operating system, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs trashing Flash in an April missive and the co-chairs of Adobe's board of directors accusing Apple of undermining the Web in mid-May.
The retraction by Adobe was only the latest skirmish in a long war between Apple and Adobe over Flash.
