Adobe is to stop making software tools that allow Apple's iPhone and iPad to use its popular Flash technology.

The decision by Adobe reverses an earlier pledge in which it said it would help get Flash working on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. In mid-April, Adobe released software called Creative Suite 5 that contained translation tools that automatically turn Flash code into programs that run on the iPhone. Apple updated the terms and conditions of the license software developers must sign to create iPhone and iPad applications which in effect placed strict restrictions on what developers can use to create these applications and effectively banned them from using code translators such as Creative Suite 5.