Getting back at Abode for publicly lamenting Apple’s developers’ agreement changes that restrict Flash from the iPhone, the usually-silent Apple has responded with the reiteration that the iPhone developer terms will allow only a few selective programming languages, excluding Abode Flash.

That Apple and its CEO Steve Jobs dislike Flash is evident from the fact that not only have there been public statements trashing Flash, but the iPhone-maker has also killed one of the key features of Abode’s newly-released Creative Suite 5 that allows conversion of Flash apps to the iPhone.

The recent onslaught against Abode has come from Apple spokeswoman Trudy Miller, who told AppleInsider: “Someone has it backwards--it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H. 264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe's Flash is closed and proprietary.”

The Abode-Apple mud-slinging started when Apple announced that the iPhone and iPad would not support Flash; and Apple’s list of “iPad-ready sites” largely comprised special versions of popular websites that do not use Flash at all.

Reacting to the Apple move, Flash evangelist Lee Brimelow wrote earlier this month: “Go screw yourself, Apple”; and recently, Adobe's principal product manager for Flash developer relations, Mike Chambers, said: “I believe that ultimately open platforms will win out over the type of closed, locked down platform that Apple is trying to create.”