Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) announced the release of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5) product family that includes the Packager for iPhone tool preview to enable development of content for Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL)  iPhone and iPad. However, Apple, which has banned Flash technology from the iPhone and iPad, is refusing to approve App Store submissions originating via CS5-based solutions.

Along with its release of the iPhone OS 4.0 software development kit, Apple updated the terms of its iPhone developer agreement to mandate that all applications must be written directly on the iPhone platform, effectively banning cross-compiler translation tools like CS5.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch responded to Apple's decision in a blog post Friday. "First of all, the ability to package an application for the iPhone or iPad is one feature in one product in Creative Suite," Lynch writes. "CS5 consists of 15 industry-leading applications, which contain hundreds of new capabilities and a ton of innovation. We intend to still deliver this capability in CS5 and it is up to Apple whether they choose to allow or disallow applications as their rules shift over time."

The iPhone developer license update is the latest chapter in the ongoing skirmish between Apple and Adobe, which dates back at least as far as March 2008, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs contended the iPhone requires a media player more robust than the existing Flash mobile solution. Recently during a town hall meeting with Apple employees, Jobs reportedly dismissed Adobe as "lazy" and added that Apple doesn't support Flash because it's so buggy. Jobs went on to blame Flash as the culprit behind most Mac crashes, and said the platform is facing extinction as the world moves to HTML5. Asked during last Thursday's media event whether Flash will come to the iPhone anytime soon, Jobs succinctly replied "Uh, no."

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