Legal issues?

Why have there been no answers from Adobe in this forum for the past few weeks? Is Adobe backing away from this initiative? Have they run into legal issues with Apple regarding the developer licence or any other aspect of the iPhone application submission process?
There is a lot of speculation right now about CS5 dev for the iPhone in general, so it seems strange that Adobe is not interested in their developers questions unless there is some issue they are currently dealing with.

On the contrary, there has been no public response from Apple (negative or positive) and the work is continuing at full speed.
There are three reasons you haven't seen much activity from Adobe employees the last few weeks:
October 11-17 was an official "shut down" week for Adobe (North America) employees. With very few exceptions nobody was allowed to work that week.
The teams that are building this are working feverishly to fix bugs, improve performance, and finish features in time for the public beta later this year. (Keep in mind that for a large project such as Adobe builds, before a public release the code is locked down for several weeks of testing and final fixing, so feature work needs to be wrapped up before that time.)
There isn't any new public information since MAX. Many of the questions are either asking for information that is answered in the public articles and FAQs, or else is asking for information that we can't answer right now because it's not public information.
The best thing I can say is to keep working on planning and building your content using existing publicly available resources (Flash CS4 using Flash Player and AIR apis, as described in the various FAQs) and when the public beta is available there will be opportunity for you to ask more questions (and test things out for yourself).
Paul
Adobe AIR team

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