Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Adobe exec confirms Flash for iPhone, says Apple will decide when



CNET is reporting confirmation that Flash will be coming to iPhone soon.

Brynildsen got the confirmation at an Adobe Town Hall meeting session. He reports:

"Upon a direct question from the audience, Paul Betlem for the first time publicly confirmed that Adobe is actively developing a Flash Player for Apple's popular phone. He said (not direct quote) 'My team is working on Flash on the iPhone, but it's a closed platform.' He noted that Apple makes all the decisions, so in other words, the ball is in Apple's yard at this time. If Apple says yes, Adobe will have the player available in a very short time."

In mid-June, Adobe's CEO said that company already has Flash running on an iPhone emulator (presumably the same emulator included with Apple's iPhone SDK).

I'm a bit skeptical though. Flash slows down my desktop, how can the iPhone possible have an SDK that doesn't crash the phone every minute? Safari doesn't go 10-minutes without crashing as it is. Here's to hoping.

2 comments:

Carlos Lorenzo said...

Thanks for sharing, Allen. I completely support your musings. I read @emom's article and I started following her thanks to you. I think there are a lot of spammers out there and one-way dialogs too. I used to be in the last group and I am trying to quit the bad habit and stop looking at myself in the mirror.

Anonymous said...

well this is really grim.