Adobe is gearing up to submit a Flash player to Apple for its popular iPhone mobile phone device. However, there are still questions looming about whether Adobe can get the product through the iTunes App Store approval process and whether Apple will ever let the company integrate Flash into the mobile version of Safari.
A standalone Flash player could be a boon for casual gaming on the iPhone. Flash is one of the preferred platforms for casual gaming on the web and a standalone player could expedite creating iPhone versions of the applications without the need to develop something native to the iPhone.
While a standalone Flash player for the iPhone could be useful, it doesn’t solve the problem of being able to successfully navigate websites in Flash onto the iPhone. And even if Steve Jobs allows a plug-in, many web sites would still be hard to navigate on a phone. It won’t help users to be able to see a site if the buttons aren’t large enough for navigating on a mobile browser.
Only time will tell whether Steve Jobs decides to keep his foot on Adobe’s neck about Flash for iPhone. With Flash expected to be released on Windows Mobile this year as well, it would be unwise for Apple to let its competitor leap a step ahead on this one. Further, if Adobe does a poor job of implementing Flash on the iPhone, then users won’t install it.
Hey, Steve-o, how about letting us decide?
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my my, what an ill-reasoned post that only has wishful thinking as it’s basis.
The App Store is selling $1 million in apps a day, the majority of which are games. Apple is attracting hordes of developers to the platform, and keeping 30% of all revenues.
You think Apple is going to allow Flash so that developers can instead offer games for free over the web, and shift revenues to Adobe a la letting them sell Flash authoring software? Haha, you are too funny!
Besides allowing Flash on iPhone would BREAK the UI paradigm. Double tap in Iphone is zoom in - in a Flash app, what would double tap do? I can guarantee 99% of the time it won’t zoom in.
If you stepped outside of thinking iPhone is to Mac like Windows Mobile is to Vista or XP, you’d realize Flash would utterly break usability on iPhone.
Combined with the revenue aspect of the App Store, Apple is most certainly avoiding shhoting itself in the foot by not allowing Flash. Adobe is the one with the gun aimed at them, as developers migrate to AJAX and CSS to cater to the rising tide of iPhone users.
By the way, Microsoft is boasting it sells 18 million Windows Mobile licenses a year.
Most analysts are projecting Apple will sell 40 million units in 2009. Even the conservative prjections are north of 25 million.
Meaning, Windows Mobile will not be a factor in what Apple does or doesn’t do.
Steve Jobs would shoot himself in foot by Allowing Flash.
Even Android is not going to be that quick to allow Flash.
They both want Ajax.
Flash should never have become a video wrapper.
I only hope that Apple grows strong enough to kill flash on the Mac, rather than let it invade and diminish the web experience on the iphone.
Adobe makes some wonderful products but flash as it is popularly used is bad in so many ways.
Developing open standards to do interactive graphics on the web will be better for the whole internet!
People who have Flash intro should kill them as soon as possible.
Any site that creates a UI in flash should be banned / boycotted by the community (most are unless they have needed content and there is no other option).
Using minimal flash in just the paces you need simple action graphics are it’s only useful application I have seen and it is the community that needs to extend html / xml . ajax to fill this need.
And flash as a movie-player simply needs to be stopped it is just like DRM in music and will die - the sooner the better.
“Flash is gearing up to submit a flash player to apple…”?? Please tell me who this Flash company is? Have they taken over Adobe?…..
Give me one good reason why Flash should be let anywhere near the mobile web let the iPhone….no…. I thought so - you can’t.
Better still… shoot yourself in the foot dumbo.
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@flint Flash fixed to Adobe. Thanks for your input
I still have yet to hear how Flash would actually hurt the user experience on the iPhone. The double tap or pinch could still zoom and there would be a lot more alternatives for user interface.
As far as AJAX goes, I’ve been cheering the mobile browser developers to include full AJAX support for over a year. In fact, if there are good UI standards in place, then why couldn’t Flash be used in exactly the same ways?
Further, what makes anyone think that Google would keep flash out of their open platform? They aren’t even reviewing Android apps before releasing them? And since when should Apple ignore what Google and Microsoft are doing?
As soon as you let your ego get the better of you and stop looking at the competition, you give them a chance to pass you.
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