Addressing the ‘D: All Things Digital’ conference in Rancho Pales Verdes, California, on Tuesday, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs said that Abode’s Flash had “had its day” and that the technology was “waning.”

Defending Apple’s move to back the HTML5 technology for its April-released iPad tablet computer, Jobs said: “Sometimes you have to pick the things that look like the right horses to ride going forward. And Flash looks like a technology that had its day and is waning. And HTML5 looks like the technology that is really on the ascendancy right now.”

During the nearly 90-minute interview at a conference, Jobs – describing Apple as an “incredibly collaborative company - specified that Apple’s move to give Flash a miss and go in for HTML5 was largely a “technical decision” rather than sparking a supposed war with Abode.

Noting that Apple was always responsive to the users’ feedback, Jobs said that the market apparently does not think that the lack of Flash on the iPad is a wrong decision – more so as statistics reveal that the tablet is being well-accepted by the people, with one iPad selling every three seconds ever since the device’s launch.

Clarifying some of the other issues during the interview, Jobs said that Apple has no plans to challenge Google in the search business; and that Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group does not operate a sweatshop.