Adobe responds to Steve Jobs' "lazy" remark

Shortly after the iPad was revealed, Steve Jobs decided to go on a tirade about how Google's full of crap and Adobe is lazy.  Now why on Earth would Jobs call Adobe lazy?  Aren't Apple and Adobe BFF or something? 

Is appears his rant stemmed from a curious yet continuous lack of Flash support in Apple handhelds, specifically the iPhone and new iPad.  Inside sources roughly quoted Jobs calling Flash "buggy," declaring it too subpar for Apple to seriously consider.

Enter Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, who was less than pleased with Jobs' unkind words.  So he took to the Adobe blog with a few thoughts of its own.  Oh, and you bet he took a shot at Apple's use of "magical" as a valid description for iPad technology, opening the very long blog post with:

Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device.

Ironically, Flash was originally designed for pen computing tablets, about 15 years before that market was ready to take off.

The rest of the personal piece goes on to defend Flash, which Jobs previously called "obsolete" and soon to be replaced by HTML5.  Obviously, Lynch disagrees wholeheartedly, stating that depite its perks, HTML5 would set things "back to the dark ages of video on the Web," mostly due to resulting compatibility issues:

Adobe supports HTML and its evolution and we look forward to adding more capabilities to our software around HTML as it evolves. If HTML could reliably do everything Flash does that would certainly save us a lot of effort, but that does not appear to be coming to pass. Even in the case of video, where Flash is enabling over 75% of video on the Web today, the coming HTML video implementations cannot agree on a common format across browsers, so users and content creators would be thrown back to the dark ages of video on the Web with incompatibility issues.

As for why Flash is incompatible with Apple handhelds?  Lynch puts the blame on Apple, mostly; Jobs suggests Flash is subpar, and Lynch is accusing Apple of being plain difficult.

So, what about Flash running on Apple devices? We have shown that Flash technology is starting to work on these devices today by enabling standalone applications for the iPhone to be built on Flash. In fact, some of these apps are already available in the Apple App Store such as FickleBlox and Chroma Circuit. This same solution will work on the iPad as well. We are ready to enable Flash in the browser on these devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.

Any guesses on how Jobs will respond to Lynch responding to him?