Apple engineer reveals the real reason Jobs didn’t allow Flash on the iPhone

While it's somewhat interesting to hear first hand information from what's arguably one of the defining moments of the last decade of the web, I can't work out what crazy logic allows the following to make sense:

> Burroughs relays that Jobs’ vehement refusal to support the technology may have had less to do with security considerations and more to do with the fact that Adobe, as a partner, couldn’t be relied upon to address said security issues

The tweet's referenced actually compare the public "poor UI/power consumption" reason to a "lack of open dialog" with Adobe, which meant Steve (and thus Apple) couldn't count on Adobe to respond in a timely manner to security issues.

That is the absolute definition of a security consideration. How/when the vendor responds (if at all) to security issues is absolutely in and of itself a security issue, when the answer seems to be "silently and with no words/never".

A good article from Yahoo.

“However, the decision was the right one based on both technical reasons and that Adobe was a shiy partner. Almost a decade later, it turns out that Steve Jobs was right. Flash is dead and Adobe is a still a shiy partner.”