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I can hear it now... everyone saying "finally". It was announced at Flash on the Beach this week that Adobe is working on Flash for the iPhone.
There is no set date when this will be available, as it is up to Apple to determine, but the Flash/Flex development community is eagerly awaiting the news.
You can get more information regarding the announcement at:
Flash Magazine:
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_for_the_iphone_confirmed_at_fotb/
PC World
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007842.html
Adobe Feeds:
http://feeds.adobe.com/index.cfm?searchterms=iphone&query=bySimpleSearch&searchsortby=date
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Exciting stuff. I don't know how "set in stone" it really is though... Maybe be worth checking out what Serge Jespers (Adobe Platform Evangelist) had to say about the discussion at FOTB...
http://www.webkitchen.be/2008/10/01/flash-on-the-iphone-confirmed-we-said-nothing-new/
I've heard before that apple wouldn't want flash (or flash lite) on their devices because it's pretty processor (and thus battery) intensive and so "the whole internet" as they claim would actually drastically reduce battery life, which users of course will not blame on flash but on apple.
"I can hear it now... everyone saying "finally"."
Or like most people I know, saying "Yeah, so?"
I think when Steve Jobs said that Flash wasn't ready for the iPhone and that there needed to be a "version in the middle [of Flash Lite and Flash]", he really meant that he wanted a version that did not allow developers to create really cool applications and games and run them on the phone without selling them via the Apple App Store! My guess is that Apple will not allow Adobe to release a full flash player for the iPhone and that oddly enough, the features they will demand are removed will all revolve around game and app development.
@Kyle
That's easy enough. They could either provide the ability to turn Flash off or even just don't implement it in the browser. Just having the ability to run non-browser Flash would open up several possibilities.
@OneMonkeysUncle
So negative, shame shame.
@Steve H
If they removed features revolving around game and app development then what would be the point? With such features removed there is no Flash. But I agree that I would see Apple thinking of it as a competitor to their app store business model. As I mentioned above they could just have Flash running outside the browser so that Flash applications could be developed to run on the iPhone instead of through the browser. Such Flash apps could be sold through the app store.
Wait, hold it... Apple's releasing some kind of mobile phone? When did *that* happen...!? ;-)
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