Paranoia sets in

I did a quick read over the article from The Wall Street Journal about the Apple shareholder meeting. I was mostly interested in any iPhone SDK tidbits.

But the following paragraph about Flash support caught my attention:

As Jobs put it Tuesday during the company's annual shareholder meeting, Apple's iPhone, with all its cutting-edge mobile Internet trickery, needs something much better than the current Flash player that Adobe makes for cellphones. The Flash Player option that fits the bill is made for devices like laptops that are larger than the iPhone; as a consequence, it performs too slowly on the iPhone, he said.

Emphasis mine.

I don't know if those are Jobs exact words. If they are, there is a lot of meaning and future directions we can extract from the choice of words. Is Apple preparing a Silverlight-style maneuver, with a Flash-like language? Or are they writing their own Flash player?

In the end, I think its just a curious choice of words, without any second meanings. But the mind did wander a bit for a while.