Adobe has given an angry response to the remarks by Apple CEO Steve Jobs that referred to Adobe as "lazy".

Reportedly Mr. Jobs had expressed that most frequent reason for crash in a Mac system is Flash. He had characterized Adobe as lazy and Flash as buggy and said that more people are moving towards HTML5.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch said "I can tell you that we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs." Through a blog entry he took a hit on the Apple's new iPad. He said that "Some have been surprised at the lack of inclusion of Flash Player on a recent magical device."

Mr. Lynch outlined that the Flash was designed ahead of it times as a pen computing tablets. According to him, about 85% of the top websites use Flash and it is running on 98 per cent of computers on the web. It is also a critical part of the smartphone market.

Flash Player 10.1 is being developed for most major smartphones manufacturers including Google's Android, RIM's Blackberry, Nokia and Palm Pre.

In relation to HTML5 replacing Flash, he said that even with the advances of HTML Flash would be around because it enables more than 75% of Web video. HTML he said does not have common format across browsers for video implementations. He does not believe that HTML will replace Flash but says that both can coexist for longer term.

With regard to the performance of Flash on MAC he said the player runs faster on systems with windows even though Windows and MAC have identical hardware. He suggested that vector-graphic performance of MAC should improve in Flash 10.1 as the use Mac OS X's Core Animation graphics capabilities could make it faster.

A test has showed Flash was over twice as CPU-taxing on Mac video performance as on the same system running Windows in Apple' Boot Camp environment.

In a response Mr. Lynch said that Flash Player 10.1 would aim at bringing Mac and Windows closer to parity for video. Flash was also found to have different running speed on different browsers.

The two firms have clashed earlier as well. Apple users were demanding the inclusion of Flash in its iPhone however Mr. Jobs had described it as "too slow to be useful" and said it wasn't advanced enough for the product.