Adobe confirms Flash for iPhone in the works; Apple is assisting
Steve Jobs once said that Flash on the iPhone would be a bad move as it is extremely resource heavy and that Flash Lite doesn’t have what it takes to make for an enjoyable web experience. Adobe on the other hand, wasn’t all that interested in what Steve said because it was only a few months ago it signaled its intentions to bring Flash to the iPhone. The problem was Apple wasn’t involved in the process and it was highly unlikely that it would approve anything to do with Flash unless it was directly involved in the process. This week in Switzerland, Adobe’s CEO Shantanu Narayen was feeling pretty talkative and finally let the official cat out of the bag by saying that both Adobe and Apple are working together to make Flash a reality for the iPhone platform. Admitting the process of porting a reliable version of Flash to the iPhone is no easy task, Narayen was confident that having both Adobe and Apple work on the project together would be the key to success. One of the largest questions that remains is whether or not Flash will be coded into the iPhone’s firmware or if it will be a specific Flash-enabled web browser available in the App Store. The latter, however, is highly unlikely given the fact that the two companies are finally working together – you can be sure Apple won’t let Adobe steal the spotlight.
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Lets get this on the phone in a flash
That means ill be able to watch redtube on the go!
too bad none of this matters to me personally.
in a world where only verizon works, what’s a girl to do?
but good to see companies working together to better devices for the better of the public. ;-]
Apple is finally willing to work with Adobe on getting flash on the iPhone, only AFTER word leaked out that Palm’s new WebOS will support flash.
Too late foos! There’s a new Jesus phone in town and it’s name is the Palm Pre.
Muwhahahahaha!!1
The pre is everything the iphone isn’t. Still a great device to use though and nice to see apple noticing what people want
@flea,
You do what I do. Keep your Verizon phone and buy an ipod touch.
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Bring Flash to the Bold… it will just be so much better than it already is.
When are we going to see Flash on the BlackBerry platform? Surely the latest generation BlackBerries (Bold, Storm, etc.) are powerful enough for this to be possible?
@M,
You already can watch RedTube on the iPhone.
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@donnie, Not really, i believe the Palm Pre will have the old Flash Lite which is exactly what Apple said from day one that they didn’t want cause it’s crappy, the Palm Pre looks promising but remember most not all of the cool things it does the iphone did 2 years ago so Apple might surprise everyone again this coming june, hey you never know
No flash for this iPhone, maybe the next one coming this summer. Might be a data
I thought flash was dead.
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@E21P
Seriously? My prayers have been answered.
I imagine this will appear on the next iteration of the iPhone due to the significant resource requirements of the full-fledged Flash software. Additionally it would be a provide a strong incentive for current iPhone users to upgrade … meaning, of course, more $$$ for Apple.
Apple and Adobe have been in a pissing constant for a while now. Adobe feels somewhat threatened about Apple possibly working on a top secret graphics suite to rival their Creative Suite on Mac.
We’ll see…
I picked up a Palm Pro at Best Buy last week, which runs windows mobile, and which supports flash quite nicely.
i cannot wait to see apple spin this as if they have been supporting flash the whole time and how this is the first phone to utilize flash technology. i can just see the ads right now…..
@AJE,
I’m thinking the same thing. This will probably be in the 3rd gen iPhone. With flash enabled the new iPhone will have more onboard memory to let flash sites run smoothly.
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I don’t understand what adults are doing with this phone? Its biggest demographic is 9-20 year olds. I love watching people try to impress me with how their phone can mimic passing gas. Amazing huh?
I can’t believe their calling it a “smartphone”
@David Thande: You have obviously have no need for a device capable of delivering a good multimedia (music/video/web) experience. The iPhone is not a full featured replacement for your crackberry/winhack devices. For what it was designed to do, it has no real competition to date (including the app store, etc). Android is promising, but has no good hardware to show itself on. I think you are dead wrong about the demographic as well, but we would need some real data to argue that one.
Back to the topic at hand, I believe (as some have previously state) the iPhone is unlikely to have enough resource to run full out Flash. If Apple does release an update device it will most likely have a CPU speed boost (like the Touch 2G), maybe more ram/better camera and HSUPA (drool) – even then I don’t see it running embedded flash. I think most likely they are talking about flash-based games/widgets. We’ll just have to wait and see.
“17. I don’t understand what adults are doing with this phone? Its biggest demographic is 9-20 year olds. I love watching people try to impress me with how their phone can mimic passing gas. Amazing huh? I can’t believe their calling it a “smartphone” by David Thande on 02-02-2009 at 1:22 am ” lol true dat……………..
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I really hope it’s a full flash experience integrated into the device. It’s about time phones had a seamless integration of that technology.
The more I learn what the iPhone doesn’t have, the happier I am I didn’t blindly take the plunge on an expensive phone with AT&T.
Finally. Took Apple and Adobe long enough…
This is great news!!!!
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