Adobe cooperates with Apple on Flash for iPhone
Apple wants Adobe to craft a specific version of Flash that will retain much of the functionality of the desktop version but not require as many system resources. Adobe and Apple continue to work on bringing Flash technology to the iPhone, but there are still many hurdles to overcome.The touch-screen iPhone is widely viewed as having the best mobile browsing experience with mobile Safari, but it lacks support for third-party plug-ins like Flash. Instead, Apple requires that video be delivered in a particular file format, and Web video from the likes of YouTube is delivered via a separate application. Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Flash for desktops and notebooks “performs too slow to be useful” on the iPhone because of its resource needs. The mobile version, known as Flash Lite, is used on millions of handsets, including Nokia’s S60 platform, but Jobs said it “isn’t capable enough to be used with the Web.” Apple has been calling on Adobe to create a third version more suitable for its mobile platform.
Adobe has wanted to bring Flash to the iPhone because of its sales success and the browsing patterns of its users. But the company said the iPhone’s software development kit and licenses were not robust enough to deliver the technology. “It’s a hard technical challenge, and that’s part of the reason Apple and Adobe are collaborating,” Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Bloomberg Television. “The ball is in our court. The onus is on us to deliver.” Apple recently got into some hot water with the United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority because of the iPhone’s inability to support the nearly ubiquitous Web technology. The company had been running advertisements that claimed the handset can access “all parts of the Internet,” but the agency said the ads were “misleading” because of the lack of Flash and Java support.
Source: Info Week
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i know everyone hate this but i never been first
and btw finally, flash for iphone, im sick of mobilecinema
No iPhone for me. Gonna buy a Palm Pre instead.
Finally! Just need java now…
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What about the G1? It never gets any love.
Pfft @ Adobe's Mac efforts. I can tell you now as a developer that the SDK is more than sufficient, and Adobe needs to learn how to program again. Besides, who wants flash ads on their phone?
At last Flash for Iphone
Also..
Every time Iphone is mentioned on this site people say "I'm gonna wait until… such and such is released because it'll be better" and they have been saying this for the past few years now and every new phone on a gadget website is touted as an "Iphone Killer"… Again for the past few years and yet nothing has beat the Iphone or Ipod. Even Sony gave up and now Microsoft are heading in the same direction with the Zune. Think it's time for people to give up their Apple ignorance and try the products before having a go.
"I can tell you now as a developer that the SDK is more than sufficient, and Adobe needs to learn how to program again."
It isn't sufficient for dev's running Linux/Windows pc's that can't sign their code to distribute on iTunes. The flash ads I agree with you on though.