Flash on the iPhone? Go ask Steve Jobs

Posted by Will on Friday, February 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm under Mac OS, Developer, iPhone, Apple, Applications

iPhone Flash support coming, but when?Flash on the iPhone. We've been pining for just a little bit of Flash-love from Apple ever since we first ventured on the New York Times website. But, to our dismay, Cupertino's been pretty tight-lipped about any official Flash support for our iPhones.

But, it's not just the public from which Steve Jobs is keeping his intentions hidden. “No one aside from [Apple CEO] Steve Jobs has any idea if or when it’s coming,” Ryan Stewart, Adobe’s chief spokesman stated on his blog. “Everyone I talk to doesn’t know anything.”

Apparently, the delay in Flash support isn't some battery-life concern or some technological barrier, the problem is the Apple-Adobe business relationship. The two companies aren't exactly on the best of terms - Adobe slighted Apple by ceasing Mac support on certain products, and Apple retaliated by hurting Adobe's distribution model.

So, with the iPhone SDK due within the next week or so, we're likely going to see Flash support on the iPhone. The question is, will Adobe be getting any sort of heads-up from Apple? Likely not.

[Via: MocoNews]

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    • 5 Responses to “Flash on the iPhone? Go ask Steve Jobs”

    • News reader says:
      February 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm

      iPhone really need Flash otherwise it lose to Nokia devices.

    • Mike says:
      February 23rd, 2008 at 7:50 am

      don't need
      IMHO

    • Aaron Shelhamer says:
      February 23rd, 2008 at 9:48 am

      I have a feeling Apple will skip flash and just support Silverlight.

      ;)

    • Adrian Hall, Bytemobile says:
      February 23rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm

      I don’t think anyone would disagree that given the iPhone’s status as the ultimate mobile multimedia device, the next natural step for Apple would be to officially support Flash. In a recent consumer research study commissioned by Bytemobile, participants cited inadequate screen size as one of the key deterrents to accessing mobile video. The iPhone clearly trumps this problem more than any other handset on the market, making the partnership between Flash and Apple a natural fit, which could ultimately be a boon to mobile video.

    • Aaron Shelhamer says:
      February 23rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm

      ultimate mobile multimedia device????

      trumps the screen size problem more than any other handset????

      take a look at some of the big and not so big players out there like HTC. You'd never guess the screen sizes you can actually get.

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