No Flash for iPhone
Adobe had bad news for us last week, Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen talked about the future of Flash in mobile devices:We are bringing Flash Player 10 to smartphone class devices to enable the latest web browsing experience. Multiple partners have already received early versions of this release and we expect to release a beta version for developers at our MAX Conference in October. Google’s Android, Nokia’s Symbian OS, Windows Mobile, and the New Palm Web OS will be among the first devices to support web browsing with the newest Flash player. Companies including ARM, NVIDIA, Broadcom, Intel, Texas Instruments, and Qualcomm are optimizing Flash player for their processors and platforms. We continue to see momentum for the open stream project and now have 25 participants on board to use Flash as a consistent run-time across screens.
So Flash for everyone but iPhone. Even Web OS is getting the next release.
Bad news, with the iPhone 3GS improved processor and memory the Flash support seemed more possible than ever but i guess we all have to wait a little longer.
Seen on MobileCrunch.
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Comment by Ivedone on June 26, 2009 at 5:26am - At least we have youtube... we cant play Flash games, or use Vimeo (snif i miss vimeo in my iphone) but most of the video stuff get published in youtube. And if another video site gets enough attention then i think apple would add it too to the iphone os, so i dont worry too much :)
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Comment by Entropycs on June 25, 2009 at 10:06am -
Hi Carl,
I think the problem is not with applications, today you can have applications based on web pages that are not donwloaded from App Store. The real problem is multimedia: videos and songs, with flash you can have them on a browser without using iTunes. That's what Apple do not wants.
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Comment by Carl Fried on June 25, 2009 at 8:26am - If the App Store is not the core business of Apple (money comes mostly from hardware sales), why they are so worried about flash and that people can run applications not donwloaded from the Store?
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