Adobe Flash on the I-Phone?

Posted At : January 19, 2009 2:54 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Apple,Flash,Technology

There has been a lot of noise in the past week about Apple lifting a ban on 3rd party browsers. Apparently a few browsers (Edge Browser, Incognito) are now available on the i-tunes store backdated to sometime in October.

Dan Frommer wrote an article indicating that Apple is opening the door for Flash on the i-phone but I don't think that will happen any time soon, if at all.

Allowing Flash to run on the i-phone will mean that Apple will have to relinquish some of it's control and I just don't see that happening, ever. Since Flash, in it's own right, a code interpreter, it seems very unlikely that Apple will ever lift the ban on Flash.

Until that time other mobile phone manufacturers will work very hard at closing the gap on the i-Phone, and most of the newer phone already allow flash. Sure the i-phone was first on the block to offer multi-touch but I don't believe it will be the last.

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Android! This is why I got an Android phone, and skipped the iPhone. I know the G1 is the the FIRST Android phone, but it certainly won't be the LAST Android phone by any means, and Google's willingness to completely open up Android is going to pay huge dividends down the line. Yes, Flash WILL be available for Android, as we've already had Kevin Lynch confirm at Max. I think Adobe and more importantly, Adobe DEVELOPERS should flock to the Android platform. The gravity that could be generated by the massive movement of Flash developers to Android will be insurmountable, in my opinion.

# Posted By Jeff Small | 1/19/09 4:51 PM

I took a look at the G1 and it's really quite huge (thick), that on-board keyboard makes it really thick. I am a patient man and will wait until for a few versions to eliminate the childhood illnesses that come with most new technologies

# Posted By Gary | 1/19/09 5:34 PM

Mmmh... Last time I checked the G1 didn't have Flash Player either.
Don't see any reason why Adobe developers should flock to it.....

# Posted By Emanuele Cipolloni | 1/20/09 4:42 PM

I read an article today that mentioned being able to watch videos on youtube. If
I am not mistaken (though I could be) all youtube videos are delivered via a flash player

# Posted By Gary Gilbert | 1/20/09 5:26 PM

I'd be happy with a tool that packaged a swf as an iPhone/iTouch application like the way you can package a swf for Air.

# Posted By jy | 1/20/09 5:26 PM

Firstly, I agree with the main comment - the third party browsers on the iPhone all use the same underlying Webkit library as Safari (and other apps).

2. YouTube video on the iPhone uses H264 in a different container format from FLV

3. A decent iPhone developer blog concluding that graphics on the iPhone were 60 times slower than a desktop Mac. Similar benchmarks have been reported for JavaScript performance.

4. Desktop Flash is far slower on the Mac and Linux than Windows.

In short - I do not hold out much hope for Flash being a good platform for developing mobile apps on any phone in the near future.

# Posted By JulesLt | 1/20/09 6:43 PM

5. Can't imagine flash popups jumping on every website I go to with my safari mobile. say no to flash for iphone.

# Posted By mike | 1/25/09 2:05 PM

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