Can we blame Adobe for being a little annoyed with Apple recently? Months ago, in the early build up to Adobe releasing Creative Suite 5 (CS5) they announced they were working on a means to convert Flash applications to the iphone using a special compiler / converter. To developers this sounded like a brilliant idea, it would enable many more developers to create iphone / ipad compatible applications without the requirement of an Apple Mac, the iphone dev kit and learning Objective C. Apple didn't say anything, or stop them at this point.
However, with Apple's announcement of the iphone 4.0 SDK, they changed the wording of it to exclude using anything that wasn't Objective C and the iphone SDK to create apps, this effects far more than just Adobe but they are the biggest company effected and didn't take kindly to it. It has lead to one Adobe staff member saying "go screw yourself" to Apple (http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888), followed by threats of sueing Apple, the final stance is ditching the iphone / ipad platform altogether. This is all in addition to Apple denying Adobe the chance to bring Flash to the platform.
However, could this be benifitial to Apple's competitors, having Flash support on your device opens up so much of the web, and allows much richer sites. Windows, Linux and OSX already have a flash player, so why not the i-devices? Adobe don't want to annoy their current users so will not hold back CS5 from the Mac, however, could this be a good time to look at porting it to Linux as well? Windows already gets a full port of everything in the Creative Suite, but Microsoft themselves are trying to compete with Adobe when it comes to rich media in websites with their Silverlight player, a direct competitor to Flash.
I know I for one would love it if I could get Photoshop for Linux, while The Gimp is good, its just not Photoshop. I believe not every applicaiton would need to be ported straight away, the core ones would be enough to get some designers to move from Apple machines. For one the cost for one is prohibitive with Apple hardware when compaired to a PC of similar spec. I feel there are a couple of things that hold back a higher Linux uptake in the work place (for certain types of work), web design is one fo those areas I feel NEEDS Photoshop on Linux to make it work.