I was interviewed by Ryan Kim of the San Francisco Chronicle last week about the escalating battle between Apple and Adobe. And it looks like the article is up. One of my quotes (paraphrased) made it in.

Consumers may be affected in the long run if developers avoid the iPhone, depriving users of added choice, said R Blank, founder and chief technology officer of Almer Blank, a Web and software design firm in Los Angeles.

Overall, I really consider Apple's moving surprising and bold. But as I also told the reporter, I believe Apple's gambling that it may well lose this when it becomes a legal matter, but they want the additional time to help lure developers into the Apple fold.

All I can say is, with this decision, Apple just lost a ton of potential developers, from the Adobe world. If they want to bring them over to Apple, XCode is just not going to cut it for 80%+ of the Flash world. We need to see better tools.

-r