Flash Player is not coming for the iPhone rather you can create content in AS3 which is converted to a native iPhone application using Flash CS5

Yes, that is what I wrote. :-)

I'm really surprised more Flash blogs haven't commented on this news yet...This is HUGE for Flash developers. Especially with the iPhone support.

Ha ha... this is exactly what I leave you the message. Thanks for your sharing.

Will Flash CS4 be updated to support the iPhone export or we will be forced to update yet again? We've only had CS4 for a year now and they're already giving us reasons to upgrade. I think this is potentially the worst thing about Adobe, instead of supporting existing software with new features they almost always roll it into the next version that's just over the horizon. We get fixes sure, but how many times do we get new features? Although the public beta is much appreciated. Does anybody know the upgrade percentage from CS3 to CS4? Because it seems mighty early to be talking about CS5.

At least with CS4 we can still make content that all the other phones can access.

It is nice to see that there are starting to be alternatives to iPhone development outside of Apple's direct control. You still have to go through Apple to distribute but that's a somewhat understandable thing.

The weird thing here is that the way Flash delivers content for iPhone is how it should be done on all mobiles. I would be much more interested in seeing an Android and Blackberry target next to the iPhone target rather than a way to play SWF on Android and Blackberry. Then you could make one Flash app and deploy cross-platform to many mobiles. In this case, Apple forced Adobe to do the technically smart thing and use their Flash IDE as a real IDE, compiling out machine code that can be run with the best performance on the target device.

Right now the most common use of Flash is to create a software MPEG-4 player because most Web browsers still don't have their own. But all these mobiles have hardware MPEG-4 players. They definitely don't need Flash to be their MPEG-4 player, they need websites to stop hiding their MPEG-4 in Flash so the audio video can be played natively by the smartphone.

However, what all mobiles other than iPhone are lacking is apps. They need native apps really, really badly. If I were behind Blackberry or Android I would be calling up Adobe and helping them to make a Flash CS5 compiler for my platform. Running 1 FPS video in a smartphone browser is just not nearly as useful as creating native apps for that same smartphone.

Great article!

Hand held devices are the future of that there is no doubt.

I am surprised this is not getting more coverage.

I will be incorporating Flash into my Cricket Bats website but the concern is that mobile devices will not be able to access it, thus I loose customers, however this is a real break through for mobile flash technology.