Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch has reportedly been wooed away by Apple. CNBC is reporting that Lynch has been hired but so far there are no details as to what his job title or responsibilities at the company would be.
ALERT: Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch is leaving the company this week to join Apple, sources tell @jonfortt. $ ADBE $ AAPL—
(@CNBC) March 19, 2013
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Lynch has been at Adobe since 2005 when the company acquired Macromedia. He is credited with the decision to develop early desktop publishing software Dreamweaver while at Macromedia.
The move to Apple would be tinged with a bit of irony considering the bad blood between the two companies. In 2010, Steve Jobs posted his “Thoughts on Flash” regarding Adobe’s technology and its viability for mobile devices. Adobe publicly took exception to Apple’s claims, but just a couple years later, Apple decisively won the battle.
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