Today Apple announced that it’s popular iPhone and newly launched iPad will support Adobe Flash starting with units shipped out after October 3rd, 2010.  The announcement came month’s after Steve Jobs first began publicly criticizing Abobe for its signature Flash product. Jobs had stated on numerous occasions that Flash caused 99% of crashes on the Mac and that Abobe hadn’t made any significant security or performance upgrades in years.

The announcement came after about 2 weeks of closed door meetings between Apple and Adobe. The meetings came after requests from Adobe for the two computing companies to meet to discuss Job’s recent allegations towards Flash and the negative impact on Adobe. After two weeks of tense closed door meetings with a few hostile words from each party, Apple announced that it would support Adobe Flash, however the iPhone and iPad units would not ship out with the Flash software, instead the user will have the option to download it to their new device after purchase.

AP caught up with Steve Jobs this morning as he walked into his office. Job’s stated: “I am happy that we could work out a solution with Adobe that will be beneficial to both companies as well as our customers.” Jobs later went on to say that he still had some issues with Flash but that the two companies would be working together to find a solution to these issues.

While some techies are happy about the change, some remain skeptical on the events that transpired. Justin, a 33 year old software engineer told us he believe Adobe scared Apple into allowing Flash on it’s mobile iPhone and iPad devices because Abobe was considering a hefty libel lawsuit against Apple.

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