Well, it finally happened, after several years of trying, Adobe finally gave up on Flash for the iPhone, and has announced that they will be turning their undivided attention to supporting Android and other third party operating systems instead.

This, announced yesterday, just hours after Apple issued a statement that it would no longer be supporting the use of compilers in the creation of applications for their products, as dictated by their application developer license.

Adobe, for its part, was to announce the updated release of its, Packager software, a compiler that Adobe had been using in lieu of Apples native support of the Flash format to port its applications to iPhone and iPad devices.

Apples reason for issuing the license update, as stated by Steve Jobs, was that Adobes software was buggy and wasn’t able to meet Apples exacting standards for the format.

Of course that makes the assumption that Apple wouldn’t have needed to rewrite the developer license if the software had worked correctly, which presumes that people would have actually bought the applications created with the software if they hadn’t worked all that well in the first place. Which as we all know by now, Apple quality controls, so there really wouldn’t be much of a chance for people to even see the software if Apple decided not to let it see the light of day.

All in all, yesterday was a great day to be in public relations.