There is one big question that has had Adobe working around the clock , will there ever be flash in the iPhone?
During Adobe’s Q2 earnings call Monday, chief Shantanu Narayen said that Adobe had tackled some of the technical challenges to getting Flash to work on the iPhone:
We have a version that’s working on the emulation. This is still on the computer and you know, we have to continue to move it from a test environment onto the device and continue to make it work. So we are pleased with the internal progress that we’ve made to date.
The next hurdle will be convincing Apple’s boss, Steve Jobs, that this mobile version of Flash will be powerful enough for the iPhone, which hes been skeptical of in the past.
Even if Adobe aces Flash for the iPhone and makes it the most efficient version of its plugin ever, the business part of the process could hold things up for a while longer.
The iPhone has a huge future ahead of it, and all I can say is I sure hope Adobe is a part of that. Integrating Flash into the iPhone would be a revolution we have yet to see, but doing so would call for a much stronger business relationship with Adobe than Apple has with any of its other partners. The simplest way to go about it would be to incorporate Flash right into the Safari browser on the iPhone. Will this be done? Maybe, but for now we’ll settle for a 3G network and GPS.
[Via Alley Insider]
People just don’t get it. The last thing Apple is going to do is to integrate the proprietary standard of some other company into its iPhone user interface.
People think Apple needs to add flash because it is a de facto web standard. The exact opposite is true. The web is scrambling to adapt itself to the iPhone because the iPhone is already the standard for mobile web viewing.
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@Falkirk:
As much as you’re hoping it could, I don’t think Apple is going to kill off Flash as a web standard just because they chose to ignore it. I’m sorry, but Flash is too established on almost every platform for a single platform, especially a mobile platform, to cause Flash’s demise. The fact is that iPhone users (myself included) are inconvenienced by not being able to view embedded Flash videos on many sites, and Apple’s reluctance to want to work with Adobe on integrating the software is not an indication that they are hoping it’s just gonna go away if they choose not to support it.
By saying that the phone has a future, do they mean creating some type of “flash” program on their own? I don’t know if the way things run would interfere with Adobe’s intellectual property rights, but its just code, anyone can write it once its figured out right? I’m not too savvy on code and writing actual programs, just on the consumer end.
I don’t see why they put Adobe reader on the iPhone, but not Adobe Flash.
Apple won’t add flash to iPhone because iPhone isn’t strong enough. iPhone only has 128mb RAM and 400MHZ, that’s average for a mobile phone. In order to see flash, a third generation iPhone is needed. Something with 256RAM and 600mhz CPU.
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