“Speaking at the Flash On The Beach (FOTB) conference in Brighton, Sr. Director of Engineering at Adobe Systems Paul Betlem was asked by an audience member for an update on Flash support for iPhone users,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“Betlem reportedly responded by saying his team is ‘working on Flash on the iPhone’ but given that the iPhone is a closed and closely guarded system, Apple will have final say over whether the application makes its way onto the App Store,” Lane reports. “Should Apple approve the software, it would be available ‘in a very short time,’ Betlem added.”
“Earlier this year, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs panned Flash on the iPhone, arguing that its fragmented architecture offered no middle ground suitable for use on his company’s mobile products,” Lane reports. “Specifically, he said Flash Lite ‘is not capable of being used with the web’ because it doesn’t support the same types of Flash media accessible by the traditional version of Flash player on the PC. On the otherhand, the version built for PC was dubbed a resource hog that ‘performs too slow to be useful’ on the iPhone.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
I’m sure that keeping Flash off the iPhone is going to cause web developers to abandon it in droves. I know that if I used Flash, and so my web site was only accessible to more than 99% of all Internet users, I’d see that as an insurmountable problem.
I’m equally sure Adobe will also feel suitably chastised.
So great is the power of the iPhone…
Adobe:
Purveyor of overpriced, bloated, spaghetti-coded crap.
Flash winds up processor cycles like it’s Call of Duty 4. Did I mention that it’s a browser plug-in?
IMO:
– Flash should be available for iPhone.
– There should absolutely be an on/off switch for it.
– And while I’m adding my $.02 about Flash…Apple needs to add an Ad Blocker for Safari on iPhone. Many of the web pages I visit get hung up trying to load ads (iPhone 1.0 Edge). And I don’t like that bandwidth-draining, flashing crap any more on my iPhone than I do on my desktops/laptops.
There’s an interesting piece by John Gruber at Daring Fireball about why Flash will not make it to the iPhone.
I think he’s spot on.
@nobodi
Oh, thanks for the link.
@Logan.
Actually, your understanding is a bit limited. You may be right, in that Flash is crap for video, but for thin client business applications, Flex (the business app version of Flash – and is implemented via the Flash player) is fantastic and craps on both Javascript and Silverlight.
So, bringing Flash to the iPhone would be advantageous to Apple and the industry. However, whether Apple accept that other companies do produce some good technology is yet to be seen.
@studentrights … Want someone to wipe your ass for you as well?
@theloniousMac … “But MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is based ISO/IEC 14496-12:2005 which is directly based upon Apple’s QuickTime container format”.
That truth aside, your post, eloquently demonstrates your perpetual choler here at MDN.
Here’s the link for John Gruber’s piece on flash…http://daringfireball.net/
No Flash, Thank You.
like it or not flash is a major part of the web, until something better comes along that is universally adopted flash is needed for the iPhone, period.
Yes flash is a major part of the web – the part that REALLY SUCKS.
Thanks.
I guess some people haven’t heard that “Google is your friend.”
Besides, what kind of Machead doesn’t know about Daring Fireball?
It will not be dead before it gets to the app store as it is developed by professionals and not little kid whack and hacks. It is agreed though that flash is useless.mobile games & mini game