http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

Prominently linked from the front page of Apple.com, right under the big iPad.

He makes all great points, and I’m glad to see that it begins with “First, there’s ‘Open’”. I have often wondered if Apple’s devotion to open standards was just lip service, but given their recent response to Adobe’s madness and Jobs’ words here, I’m convinced. They are serious about this one.

After critiquing the poor performance of Flash, he moves on to discussing iPhone app development and confirms that 3.3.1 is all about the Flash to iPhone ABI cross-compiler.

This has led some people to say this letter is ironic or hypocritical given how closed the App Store is, and part of the blame is on the seamless transition in this letter between the two things (the Flash web plugin and the Flash to iPhone ABI hack).