“We’ve been waiting for Flash support to hit the iPhone ever since…well…it launched,” Andru Edwards reports for Gear Live.
“We’ve had to make do without Flash for almost eight months, and YouTube even had to convert a bunch of their catalog to H.264 in order for the service to be enjoyed on the iPhone,” Edwards reports.
“Well, we’ve just got word from a reliable source that Flash support is on its way to the iPhone, and it should be coming very, very soon,” Edwards reports.
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Very good news. Some may not like flash but without it there are many sites that you can’t visit with the iPhone.
But what took soooooo long???
My last post since someone registered my name.
Argh. Flash is a hog. 2 gigs RAM, 2.0 ghz Core 2 Duo, and still Flash winds up the processor cycles.
Adobe just doesn’t understand efficiency in software.
with the skyfire browser coming up quickly, apple needs to act fast to keep the upper hand on windows mobile devices. Google “skyfire” and you’ll see what I mean. It’s a fast desktop-like browser that is dang quick and supports flash and java among other web 2.0 technology. And its going to be free to all windows mobile users.
Keep it coming, apple!
Quite possibly we were waiting for bigger capacity iPod Touch/iPhones since Flash is so large.
Tough to justify getting for my 8 GB iPod Touch.
I can watch videos on video sites like http://www.dayrobber.com on my iphone.
very simple fix would be to add a button to the browser for flash on/off
just have it on when you need it
sorry AshNazg, but you just used the words “fast” “desktop-like” and “windows mobile” all together in a way that is currently illegal in the english language…..
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a little looking shows that “The rendering engine on the device itself, though, is Gecko, i.e. the same thing used in Firefox on the desktop.” or at least several sites seem to claim that. so why should i assume that this will make those dreadful win-mobile toys any less dreadful?
…i just hope that if we get flash, we have an option to turn it off.
Hats off to ‘Gear Live’ for uncovering the the down low Flash update…
erk: I like your idea…
And shen: lol… I’ve had the opportunity to use the skyfire beta and, frankly, it’s not half bad… The browsing experience is certainly not like the iPhone’s… touching a webpage vs. using a stylus, plus the iPhone’s keyboard is way faster to use than the “real” keyboards… I’m just saying competition is ramping up and Apple needs to keep pushing the envelope. I never want a Windows Mobile user to say to me… “Oh.. my phone can do that, yours can’t?”.. I like being the one to say that phrase.
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I doubt Flash will take up as much memory on the iPhone a it does on the desktop. In the same way that Apple cajoled Intel to make smaller processors for the Macbook Air, I think they’ll persuade Adobe to streamline Flash for the iPhone. Either that or they’ll come up with some other workaround.
I’d really like to be able to play wmv audio.
“very simple fix would be to add a button to the browser for flash on/off”
Yeah! And in the shape of a trench coat.
Why does everyone assume it will be full blown Flash instead of Flash Lite?
It isn’t a bad exercise for YouTube to get some experience with H.264. They just might like it. And the world would be better off if they just decided to drop Flash altogether.
This would be good news (I am hesitant to say that it is good news, as it is only a rumor), but I think that I would be even happier to see java support.
With java, casual gaming (pogo, yahoo, etc) on the iPhone would be a reality.
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Got it. This rumor for for Flash support is mingled among the other stories.
Merciless.
Woo hoo! iphone porn is not too far away!
Some flash games would rock!
Oops that should be “This rumor for Flash support is mingled among the other stories.”
Peace.
What about flash for intel Macs?
Not going to happen.
Flash too processor hungry. HTML5 will take over.
Honestly, I don’t go to any sites that use Flash.
Steve promised no Flash! If he breaks his word now it’ll be false advertising.
@Better Not: it’s called SDK. There will be all kinds of things released like Flash, DivX, Perian, Flip4Mac that will enable a whole lotta media.