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Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

Joe — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:53:46 -0000

Lack of flash support on the iPhone ticks me off so bad I get red in the face every time I think about it. All of my favorite websites use flash, including my own. My favorite sports sites, movie sites, tv sites, and stores all use flash. The fact that Apple and Adobe have ignored the massive outcry from their customers to get Flash support on the iPhone ASAP has me livid. The lack of flash support and the cheesy/lousy functionality of the GPS App left me feeling like I got ripped of big time with the iPhone G3. The rest of the stuff it does is nice...kind of...but in order to be truly useful to my lifestyle it needs Flash Support and a TomTom or Garmin like GPS Navigation system that not only plots your route but shows an angled route view and has voice commands telling you that your turn is coming soon and turn now and so on. Until it does, it's just another crappy phone.

Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

Arron — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:19:17 -0000

I hope they never release flash for the iPhone. I'm a die hard standards man and I hate flash. Unless actionscript becomes a w3c standard I hope Apple holds out and just improves their javascript support. it would be cool to see multi touch javascript events, one can only hope for a world where onPinch() is recognized.

Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

John Dowdell — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:11:28 -0000

There was one DowJones reporter who quoted wrong, and the blogosphere just ran with it. The next day they just ran with a "backtrack" story. The real issue was with the lack of suitable skepticism, in the quest for private advertising revenues.

Try this:
http://www.flashdevices.net...

That "with or without Apple" line is still not supported by the evidence.

Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

Steve O'Hear (editor) — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:59:12 -0000

@ John Dowdell

The quote from Narayen that, having looked at the SDK, Adobe can "now start to develop the Flash player ourselves" seemed to imply that the SDK is enough to go-it-alone. However, I gather Adobe PR has backtracked on that statement. So I should update the post.

Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

John Dowdell — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:49:19 -0000

"Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen says that, with or without Apple, the company plans to develop a Flash player for the iPhone/iPod touch platform."

Really? Where? I haven't seen any such quote. Got link?

jd/adobe

Re: Who needs Flash on iPhone more? Adobe or Apple?

Dave Z — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:45:43 -0000

The biggest losers won't be Adobe or Apple, it'll be their customers like me. Though, I'm hoping the SDK allows folks to build those native apps as you suggest - all I want are things like Pandora. However, it's a different sort of development skillset and process - and it's unclear how the Apps store will work. Will it be as easy to update an app as it would be a webpage? Hmmm...