“Adobe will be demonstrating a Flash Player 10 for smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Along with the Flash 10 beta, Adobe will also be releasing the beta of a new Flash Lite distributable player based on Flash Lite 3.1,” Electronista reports.
“Even with the increase in phones using Flash Lite [shipped on 1 billion phones by the end of March], Adobe is still thought distant from getting an equivalent application onto the iPhone,” Electronista reports. “Strategy Analytics’s Stewart Robinson claims that Adobe is working diligently to get Flash onto the iPhone and is looking to have it ready to go much later this year.”
“Independent analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates claims that performance and business are the chief obstacles. In order to get high performance, Flash must run in the lower layers of the OS, which Apple restricts as part of its iPhone SDK guidelines,” Electronista reports. “Business-wise, Gold states that Apple will want to push its own technology, such as QuickTime, rather than depend on a third party’s development.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Judge Bork” for the heads up.]
