It seems that Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen isn't a developer for the firm -- or at the very least, he doesn't have a full appreciation for the height of the
fence surrounding the iPhone SDK's walled garden. The company and on-again, off-again Apple chum solidly backpedaled on the chief's comments regarding Flash for the iPhone that were made
just a day earlier, saying that "...to bring the full capabilities of Flash to the iPhone Web-browsing experience we do need to work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it." For what it's worth, Adobe does say that it's still very much interested in doing up a Flash client, it just needs a little extra help from Apple on the side to make it happen -- so if we see this package pop up in the App Store later this year, we'll know that at least
one company's been given a free pass to break the rules.
posted Mar 19th 2008 10:34PM
I wonder what the problem seems to be...
Flash is way too overused (and would never work on a mobile phone) and Flash lite is way too gimped. There's no point, it gets you nothing.
Overall I'd rather see AJAX take it's place (at least on the mobile front) vs. trying to load Flash on my phone. Hell Flash is bad enough on my full size computer as it is.
Spoken like a true ill informed user.
It seems more like the set of rules would apply more to tiny little developers that Apple can't monitor, rather than huge companies like Adobe and Sun. Apple could be right at their sides while they develop their applications in order to ensure that they don't do anything Apple doesn't want them to, whether or not they break the "rules."
I agree kind of but what could Adobe do that they don't want them to? Support flash content? They don't make the content(which is pretty much everything) they just display it. So they only option is to open the gate or not. It's like communistic up in there(Cupertino)...
Anyone who knows how to create in Flash knows there is an unlimited potential in that program. The beautiful screen on the iPhone is begging for some hot vector flash content.
As I said before Adobe spoke too soon. If Apple doesn't want Flash on the iPhone that's it.