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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has drawn a line under his company's row with Apple over the lack of Flash on the iOS platform.

Speaking on stage at the D9 conference hosted by All Things Digital Narayen also said that Apple's dominance of the tablet market would soon come to an end with tablets based on Google's Android coming to the fore.

Narayen was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, who asked him if Adobe and Apple were "done having the argument" over Flash. His response: "Absolutely".

In fact, the argument was never really about Flash technology itself, said Narayen, but Apple's control over the iOS platform. Last year Steve Jobs had blamed Flash for being the most common cause of crashes among Mac OS X systems and said that it was unsuitable for mobile devices.

At the time, Narayen had responded by saying Mac OS X was the more likely cause of most Flash-related crashes and that his company's philosophy was to create tools for developers that worked for multiple platforms. This philosophy was incompatible with Apple's single-platform outlook, he argued.

Despite drawing a line under the row, Narayen argued that Adobe's approach was still very much multi-platform and said that applications compiled in Adobe AIR can be easily converted for iOS.

Computerworld has the details HERE!